CVE-2015-7825

7.5 highEPSS 1.0%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

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

EPSS: 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 64% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2017-04-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

botan_project:botan

References

https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311618
https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311618

Check your stack JSON