CVE-2023-49292
Possible private key restoration in go package github.com/ecies/go
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.9 Medium
- Published
- Dec 4, 2023
- Updated
- Aug 2, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 24, 2023
Description
ecies is an Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1 in Golang. If funcations Encapsulate(), Decapsulate() and ECDH() could be called by an attacker, they could recover any private key that interacts with it. This vulnerability was patched in 2.0.8. Users are advised to upgrade.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.9 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
goecies |
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References
- https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h
- https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd
- https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md
- https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8
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