CVE-2025-61723 Quadratic complexity when parsing some invalid inputs in encoding/pem

What is CVE-2025-61723?

CVE-2025-61723 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Golang Go, published on 29 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The processing time for parsing some invalid inputs scales non-linearly with respect to the size of the input. This affects programs which parse untrusted PEM inputs.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-61723?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including golang and stdlib. It affects 1 product.

Products include Golang Go.

How do I fix CVE-2025-61723?

Upgrade golang to a fixed version for your release line: 1.24.8 or 1.25.2.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-61723 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-61723 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-78919, AZL-98673, BELL-CVE-2025-61723, BIT-golang-2025-61723, CLEANSTART-2026-CC52075, CLEANSTART-2026-DV62893 and 288 more.