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CVE-2026-44378: Botan is a C++ cryptography library. Prior to 3.12.0, certain patterns of indefinite length encodings in BER data could...

MEDIUM CVSS 5.5

Published: May 27, 2026 | Last Modified: May 27, 2026

Description

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. Prior to 3.12.0, certain patterns of indefinite length encodings in BER data could cause quadratic behavior in the parser, resulting in a denial of service. Such BER encodings were accepted even in structures which are required to be encoded as DER, which prohibits indefinite length encodings. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.12.0.

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