PT-2026-42855
CVE-2026-44378
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Published
2026-05-12
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Updated
2026-09-30
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Botan versions prior to 3.12.0
Description
Certain patterns of indefinite length encodings in Basic Encoding Rules (BER) data can cause quadratic behavior in the parser, leading to a denial of service. These BER encodings were accepted even in structures required to be encoded as Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER), which specifically prohibit indefinite length encodings.
Recommendations
Update to version 3.12.0.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
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