CVE-2025-58181 — crypto
MEDIUMCVE-2025-58181 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-770 vulnerability in golang.org/x/crypto. A fix is available for golang.org/x/crypto — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Unbounded memory consumption in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-58181.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2025-58181 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,636 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
golang.org/x/cryptoReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
SSH servers parsing GSSAPI authentication requests do not validate the number of mechanisms specified in the request, allowing an attacker to cause unbounded memory consumption.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | golang.org/x/crypto | all versions | 0.45.0go get golang.org/x/crypto@v0.45.0 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for golang.org/x/crypto, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update golang.org/x/crypto to 0.45.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-58181 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2025-58181 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2025-58181. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
This vulnerability is rated Moderate for Red Hat. SSH servers utilizing `golang.org/x/crypto/ssh` and configured to process GSSAPI authentication requests are susceptible to unbounded memory consumption. An attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted GSSAPI authentication requests, potentially leading to a…
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| OpenShift API for Data Protection 1.6 | oadp/oadp-velero-rhel9:1784058822 | RHSA-2026:43692 |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 8.1 | rhceph/grafana-rhel9:1777566546 | RHSA-2026:15979 |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 9.0 | rhceph/grafana-rhel10:1781018768 | RHSA-2026:26411 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | golang1-26-main-1.26.2-1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7291 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | golang1-25-main-1.25.9-1.hum1 | RHSA-2026:7385 |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20 | odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:1774540992 | RHSA-2026:6503 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-58181 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2025-58181 across Go dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.