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CVE-2019-6486 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.2 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 4.2
Exploitability Score: 3.9

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.4 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 4.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/google/wycheproof Third Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380 Third Party Advisory

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CWE-400)

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Up to (excluding)
1.10.8
 cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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From (including)
1.11.1		Up to (excluding)
1.11.5

Configuration 2 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
     Show Matching CPE(s)

Configuration 3 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-6486
NVD Published Date:
01/24/2019
NVD Last Modified:
06/03/2019