High severity · published Jan 24, 2019
CVE-2019-6486
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…
8.2
CVSS
4.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.5% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
GO
GO · Golang
before 1.10.8; 1.11.1 before 1.11.5 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6486
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6486
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740
Patch
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360
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