Resource exhaustion in Go programming language - CVE-2025-61724

 

Resource exhaustion in Go programming language - CVE-2025-61724

Published: November 7, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU118191
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4 BT: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-61724
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in net/textproto due to the Reader.ReadResponse function constructs a response string through repeated string concatenation of lines. A remote attacker can trigger excessive CPU consumption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Go programming language
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Development Tools Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Anolis OS
Engineering Lifecycle Management
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC)
watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - UAB Component
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
IBM Business Automation Workflow
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Splunk Enterprise
golang-devel
golang-help
golang
go1.24
go1.24-doc
go1.24-race
go1.24-openssl-race
go1.24-openssl-doc
go1.24-openssl
go1.24-openssl-debuginfo
go1.25-openssl-doc
go1.25-openssl
go1.25-openssl-debuginfo
go1.25-openssl-race
git-lfs-doc
git-lfs

How to mitigate CVE-2025-61724

Install updates from vendor's website.

Go programming language - addressed in versions 1.24.8, 1.25.2
Engineering Lifecycle Management - update to 1.3.0
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC) - update to 3.8.5
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.3.1 Patch 2
watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - UAB Component - update to 5.2.2
Splunk Enterprise - addressed in versions 9.2.12, 9.3.9, 9.3.10, 9.4.8, 9.4.9, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.2.1
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions - update to 9.3.1
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - update to 12.19.0
IBM Business Automation Workflow - addressed in versions 24.0.0-IF008, 24.0.1-IF006, 25.0.0-IF003
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 24.0.0-IF008, 24.0.1-IF006, 25.0.0-IF004
golang-devel - addressed in versions 1.15.7-55, 1.17.3-43, 1.21.4-38
golang-help - addressed in versions 1.15.7-55, 1.17.3-43, 1.21.4-38
golang - addressed in versions 1.15.7-55, 1.17.3-43, 1.21.4-38
go1.24 - update to 1.24.9-150000.1.42.1
go1.24-doc - update to 1.24.9-150000.1.42.1
go1.24-race - update to 1.24.9-150000.1.42.1
go1.24-openssl-race - addressed in versions 1.24.12-150000.1.18.1, 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.24-openssl-doc - addressed in versions 1.24.12-150000.1.18.1, 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.24-openssl - addressed in versions 1.24.12-150000.1.18.1, 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.24-openssl-debuginfo - update to 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.25-openssl-doc - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
go1.25-openssl - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
go1.25-openssl-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
go1.25-openssl-race - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
git-lfs-doc - update to 3.7.1-2
git-lfs - update to 3.7.1-2

External References

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