Description
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based TLS key exchanges used the math/big library, which is not constant time. RSA blinding was applied to prevent timing attacks, but analysis shows this may not have been fully effective. In particular it appears as if the removal of PKCS#1 padding may leak timing information, which in turn could be used to recover session key bits. In Go 1.20, the crypto/tls library switched to a fully constant time RSA implementation, which we do not believe exhibits any timing side channels.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Issue Tracking
https://go.dev/issue/20654
Issue Tracking
https://go.dev/cl/326012/26
Mailing List, Release Notes
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/QMK8IQALDvA
Third Party Advisory
https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
Vendor Advisory
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-2375
Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0005/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0125
EPSS Percentile
65.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-203
Status
published
Products (1)
golang/go
< 1.20.0
Published
Dec 05, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026