Excessive CPU consumption in ParseAddress in net/mail
Priority MEDIUM 40Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 58 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
The ParseAddress function constructs domain-literal address components through repeated string concatenation. When parsing large domain-literal components, this can cause excessive CPU consumption.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00647 51st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial net/mail (Go standard library): 1.24.8, 1.25.2Red Hat: 2 advisoriesRed Hat: 1 fixed, 58 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go standard library | net/mail | before 1.24.8; 1.25.0 to before 1.25.2 | 1.24.8, 1.25.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- net/mail VendorGo standard library Affected before 1.24.8; 1.25.0 to before 1.25.2 Fixed in 1.24.8, 1.25.2 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA net/mail (Go standard library) Fixed in 1.24.8, 1.25.2
Red Hat 2 advisories
- RHSA-2026:7385 Released 2026-04-10 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- Red Hat Hardened Images golang1.25-1.25.9-1.hum1@aarch64, golang1.25-1.25.9-1.hum1@src, golang1.25-1.25.9-1.hum1@x86_64 +12
- RHSA-2026:7291 Released 2026-04-09 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- Red Hat Hardened Images golang1.26-1.26.2-1.hum1@aarch64, golang1.26-1.26.2-1.hum1@src, golang1.26-1.26.2-1.hum1@x86_64 +12
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Assisted Installer for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Compliance Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Confidential Compute Attestation | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Cryostat 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Custom Metric Autoscaler operator for Red Hat Openshift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| External Secrets Operator for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| ExternalDNS Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| File Integrity Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Gatekeeper 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Logical Volume Manager Storage | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Migration Toolkit for Containers | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Multicluster Global Hub | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Network Observability Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift API for Data Protection | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Lightspeed | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Pipelines | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Serverless | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Power monitoring for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Certification Program for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Developer Hub 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Edge Manager 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Lightspeed for Runtimes Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager CLI | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Workspaces Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift GitOps | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Quay 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Service Interconnect 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Service Interconnect 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Security Profiles Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Zero Trust Workload Identity Manager - Tech Preview | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | Fixed | RHSA-2026:7291, RHSA-2026:7385 |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-61725
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qh38-484v-w52x
- 2026-10-18 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
- 2026-10-27 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-05 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
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- TI-2023-24278 HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2018-05208 The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-16309 Panic when parsing invalid palette-color images in golang.org/x/image CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-20112 Request smuggling due to improper request handling in golang.org/x/net/http2/h2c CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-61725 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-61725 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qh38-484v-w52x · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-61725 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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