Medium severity · published May 22, 2019
CVE-2019-11841
A message-forgery issue was discovered in crypto/openpgp/clearsign/clearsign.go in supplementary Go cryptography libraries 2019-03-25
5.9
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A message-forgery issue was discovered in crypto/openpgp/clearsign/clearsign.go in supplementary Go cryptography libraries 2019-03-25. According to the OpenPGP Message Format specification in RFC 4880 chapter 7, a cleartext signed message can contain one or more optional "Hash" Armor Headers. The "Hash" Armor Header specifies the message digest algorithm(s) used for the signature. However, the Go clearsign package ignores the value of this header, which allows an attacker to spoof it. Consequently, an attacker can lead a victim to believe the signature was generated using a different message digest algorithm than what was actually used. Moreover, since the library skips Armor Header parsing in general, an attacker can not only embed arbitrary Armor Headers, but also prepend arbitrary text to cleartext messages without invalidating the signatures.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CR
Crypto · Golang
2019-03-25 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11841
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11841
Exploit
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152840/Go-Cryptography-Libraries-Cleartext-Message-Spoofing.html
Product
https://go.googlesource.com/crypto/
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00011.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00014.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00017.html
Third Party Advisory
https://sec-consult.com/
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