CVE-2015-7825

high

Description

botan before 1.11.22 improperly validates certificate paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via a certificate with a loop in the certificate chain.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311618

https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-10

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H