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RUSTSEC-2023-0053 High

rustls-webpki: CPU denial of service in certificate path building

When this crate is given a pathological certificate chain to validate, it will spend CPU time exponential with the number of candidate certificates at each step of path building. Both TLS clients and TLS servers that accept client certificate are affected. We now give each path building operation a budget of 100 signature verifications. The original `webpki` crate is also affected. This was previously reported in the original crate <https://github.com/briansmith/webpki/issues/69> and re-reported to us recently by Luke Malinowski.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published August 22, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

crates.io rustls-webpki
crates.io rustls-webpki

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-fh2r-99q2-6mmg

When this crate is given a pathological certificate chain to validate, it will spend CPU time exponential with the number of candidate certificates at each step of path building. Both TLS clients and TLS servers that accept client certificate are affected. We now give each path building operation a budget of 100 signature verifications. The original `webpki` crate is also affected, see [GHSA-8qv2-5vq6-g2g7](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qv2-5vq6-g2g7). This was previously reported in the original crate <https://github.com/briansmith/webpki/issues/69> and re-reported to us recently.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities RUSTSEC-2023-0053

When this crate is given a pathological certificate chain to validate, it will spend CPU time exponential with the number of candidate certificates at each step of path building. Both TLS clients and TLS servers that accept client certificate are affected. We now give each path building operation a budget of 100 signature verifications. The original `webpki` crate is also affected. This was previously reported in the original crate <https://github.com/briansmith/webpki/issues/69> and re-reported to us recently by Luke Malinowski.

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05 / REFERENCES

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