CVE-2025-58181 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

SSH servers parsing GSSAPI authentication requests do not validate the number of mechanisms specified in the request, allowing an attacker to cause unbounded memory consumption.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.002.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-j5w8-q4qc-rx2x	golang.org/x/crypto/ssh allows an attacker to cause unbounded memory consumption

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://go.dev/cl/721961
https://go.dev/issue/76363
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/w-oX3UxNcZA
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4134

History

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title	CVE-2025-58181 in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh	Unbounded memory consumption in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-770
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		SSH servers parsing GSSAPI authentication requests do not validate the number of mechanisms specified in the request, allowing an attacker to cause unbounded memory consumption.
Title		CVE-2025-58181 in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
References		https://go.dev/cl/721961 https://go.dev/issue/76363 https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/w-oX3UxNcZA https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4134

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published: 2025-11-19T20:33:42.795Z

Updated: 2025-11-20T17:14:59.856Z

Reserved: 2025-08-27T14:50:58.691Z

Link: CVE-2025-58181

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-19T20:48:46.369Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-11-19T21:15:50.850

Modified: 2025-11-19T21:15:50.850

Link: CVE-2025-58181

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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