golang.org/x/oauth2 Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input vulnerability

HIGH 7.5CVE-2025-22868 · GHSA-6v2p-p543-phr9 · GO-2025-3488 · Published 26/02/2025 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2025-22868 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting golang.org/x/oauth2, jws (go).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.87%, higher than 58.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.27.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
golang.org/x/oauth2 Go	`< 0.27.0`	`0.27.0`
jws go	`< 0.27.0`	`0.27.0`

An attacker can pass a malicious malformed token which causes unexpected memory to be consumed during parsing.

NVD description

An attacker can pass a malicious malformed token which causes unexpected memory to be consumed during parsing.

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