5.9

CVE-2024-24783: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm in crypto/x509

Deferred
AliasesRHSA-2024:6186RHSA-2024:6187RHSA-2024:6188
Published 05-03-2024Last modified 13-02-2025

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.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.9/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.67%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 25 · Related 471
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13752-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13756-1RHSA-2024:0045RHSA-2024:2562RHSA-2024:2724RHSA-2024:3259

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Timeline

  1. 05-03-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-02-2025
    Last 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

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

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

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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