CVE-2026-44378

Description

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. Prior to 3.12.0, certain patterns of indefinite length encodings in BER data could cause quadratic behavior in the parser, resulting in a denial of service. Such BER encodings were accepted even in structures which are required to be encoded as DER, which prohibits indefinite length encodings. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.12.0.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-05 | Published 2026-05-27 | Updated 2026-05-27 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Product status

References

github.com/.../botan/security/advisories/GHSA-7q2v-3g27-6g3j

cve.org (CVE-2026-44378)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-44378)

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