AIKIDO-2026-11025
golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to Denial Of Service (DoS)
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Critical Risk
This Affects:
golang.org/x/cryptoTL;DR
A malicious SSH peer could send unsolicited global request responses to fill an internal buffer, blocking the connection's read loop. The blocked goroutine could not be released by calling Close(), resulting in a resource leak per connection. Unsolicited global responses are now discarded.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and if you use the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh functionalities.
Background info
golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to Denial Of Service (DoS) in versions 0.0.0 - 0.51.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the golang.org/x/crypto library to the patch version.
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