CVE-2024-24783: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm in crypto/x509
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-24783 is a medium (CVSS 5.9) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in go standard library crypto/x509. EPSS estimates a 0.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 25 · Related 471Showing 100 of 471.
Timeline
- 05-03-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 13-02-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Verifying a certificate chain which contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm will cause Certificate.Verify to panic. This affects all crypto/tls clients, and servers that set Config.ClientAuth to VerifyClientCertIfGiven or RequireAndVerifyClientCert. The default behavior is for TLS servers to not verify client certificates.
CVSS metrics
6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated5.9MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.9MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.9MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVDNIST5.9MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated5.9MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.67%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
52%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.67% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard199 products
- actions-runner-controller< 0.8.3-r1
- amass< 4.2.0-r4
- argo-workflows< 3.6.5-r2
- argo-workflows-fips< 3.5.5-r1
- atlantis-fips< 0.33.0-r6
Alpine1 product
- go< 1.21.8-r0 | < 1.22.1-r0
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