Advisories for Swift/Github.com/Apple/Swift-Asn1 package

2025

CVE-2025-0343: Swift ASN.1 can crash when parsing maliciously formed BER/DER

Swift ASN.1 can be caused to crash when parsing certain BER/DER constructions. This crash is caused by a confusion in the ASN.1 library itself which assumes that certain objects can only be provided in either constructed or primitive forms, and will trigger a preconditionFailure if that constraint isn't met. Importantly, these constraints are actually required to be true in DER, but that correctness wasn't enforced on the early node parser …