pyasn1 vulnerabilities

In pyasn1 prior to 0.6.5, binary REAL decoding builds a large mantissa one octet at a time by shifting a growing integer and slicing the remaining byte string. Attacker-controlled ASN.1 with large mantissas causes quadratic decode time, holding a decoding worker on one CPU core for seconds or longer and causing availability loss.

In pyasn1 prior to 0.6.5, constructed BIT STRING decoding repeatedly shifts and copies the complete bit value accumulated from earlier fragments. Attacker-controlled BER or CER input with many constructed BIT STRING fragments causes quadratic CPU work during decode().

In pyasn1 prior to 0.6.5, constructed string and indefinite-length ANY decoding repeatedly concatenates each fragment onto a growing bytes value. Attacker-controlled BER or CER data with many fragments causes quadratic CPU work during decode().

In pyasn1 from 0.3.3 until 0.6.5, schemaless container decoding stores every decoded component's TagSet in a growing set even though only one-versus-multiple tag types must be distinguished. Attacker-controlled BER, CER, or DER input with many distinct long tag IDs whose TagSet hashes collide causes quadratic CPU work during decoding.

In pyasn1 prior to 0.6.4, the univ.Real type converts its mantissa, base, and exponent to a Python float using exact big-integer exponentiation. A short BER/CER/DER encoded REAL value can carry a very large exponent, causing excessive CPU and memory consumption and application hangs when prettyPrint(), str(), comparison, arithmetic, int(), or explicit float() is called on untrusted ASN.1 data.

The pyasn1 library before version 0.6.4 has a quadratic time complexity in BER, CER, and DER decoders when processing OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID values with many arcs. A small crafted payload with many OID arcs causes excessive CPU consumption per decode() call, potentially leading to denial of service in applications processing untrusted ASN.1 data.

The pyasn1 library before version 0.6.4 has a vulnerability in the BER decoder that does not limit the tag ID size when parsing long-form tags, allowing crafted input to force construction of an arbitrarily large integer with quadratic CPU cost and trigger unhandled ValueError exceptions in Python 3.11+.

The pyasn1 library prior to version 0.6.3 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack due to uncontrolled recursion when decoding deeply nested ASN.1 structures. An attacker can craft a payload with thousands of nested SEQUENCE or SET tags with Indefinite Length markers, causing a stack overflow or memory exhaustion.

The pyasn1 library before version 0.6.2 is vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service attack causing memory exhaustion via malformed RELATIVE-OID with excessive continuation octets.