CVE-2019-6486

Aliases:GO-2022-0217
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 16
Modified
Published: 24 Jan 2019, 05:00
Last modified:04 Aug 2024, 20:23

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
33/100
CVSS Score
8.2 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.6% LOW
1% probability -1.72%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

24 Jan 2019, 05:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Aug 2024, 20:23
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.2CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.4AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.60%• Percentile: 70%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-770•Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

    The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0 | 9.0

  • golang•go

    < 1.10.8 | ≥ 1.11.1, < 1.11.5

  • Go•stdlib

    ≥ 1.11.0-0, < 1.11.5

  • opensuse•leap

    15.0

References (16)