CVE-2018-16875

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.064 · 94 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

6.38% (94th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The crypto/x509 package of Go before 1.10.6 and 1.11.x before 1.11.3 does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients are affected.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.9–7.8

v2.07.8highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-295USprimaryCWE-20USCWE-20USCWE-295US

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

[UNKNOWN] GoLang≤ 1.10.6enisa_euvdEU
[UNKNOWN] GoLang≤ 1.11.3enisa_euvdEU
Novell Inc. OpenSUSE Leap≤ 15.1fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. OpenSUSE Leap≤ 15.0fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. OpenSUSE Leap≤ 42.3fstec_bduRU
The Go Project Go≤ 1.10.6fstec_bduRU
The Go Project Go1.11.0 → 1.11.3fstec_bduRU
golang go< 1.10.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
golang go1.11.0 → 1.11.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap= 42.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go stdlib< 1.10.6osvUSpkg:golang/stdlib
Go stdlib1.11.0-0 → 1.11.3osvUSpkg:golang/stdlib

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GO-2022-0191Denial of service in chain verification in crypto/x5092022-07-15vendor · osvUS
The crypto/x509 package does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients verifying certificates are affected.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-12-14modified 2026-06-17

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references (44)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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