Protection Mechanism Failure in Go programming language - CVE-2025-22874

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Protection Mechanism Failure in Go programming language - CVE-2025-22874

Published: June 7, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU110253
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22874
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Go programming language

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in crypto/x509 when using ExtKeyUsageAny. When calling Verify with a VerifyOptions.KeyUsages that contains ExtKeyUsageAny it disables policy validation.

This only affected certificate chains which contain policy graphs, which are rather uncommon.


How to mitigate CVE-2025-22874

Install updates from vendor's website.

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