CVE-2015-8618

Aliases:GO-2021-0160
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 5
Modified
Published: 27 Jan 2016, 20:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 08:20

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.73% LOW
1% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 Jan 2016, 20:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 08:20
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The Int.Exp Montgomery code in the math/big library in Go 1.5.x before 1.5.3 mishandles carry propagation and produces incorrect output, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain private RSA keys via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.73%• Percentile: 73%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-200•Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

    The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Systems

  • golang•go

    1.5 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.2

  • Go•stdlib

    ≥ 1.5.0-0, < 1.5.3

  • opensuse•leap

    42.1

References (15)