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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.


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Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  8.2 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H


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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 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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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:
08/24/2020
Source:
MITRE