CVE-2019-6486

HIGH

GO < 1.10.8 - Resource Allocation Without Limits

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/google/wycheproof
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.2
EPSS 0.0088
EPSS Percentile 75.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
golang/go < 1.10.8
opensuse/leap 15.0
Published Jan 24, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026