CVE-2015-7825

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

botan before 1.11.22 improperly validates certificate paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via a certificate with a loop in the certificate chain.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311618Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311618Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Apr 10, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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