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CVE-2019-6486

Public on 2019-01-24
Modified on 2019-03-25
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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 golang 2019-03-07 16:17 ALAS-2019-1172
Amazon Linux 2 - Core golang 2019-03-07 05:59 ALAS2-2019-1172

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H