CVE-2023-49292

MEDIUM

ecies Go <2.0.8 - Private Key Recovery via Invalid Curve Operations

Title source: manual

Description

ecies is an Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1 in Golang. If funcations Encapsulate(), Decapsulate() and ECDH() could be called by an attacker, they could recover any private key that interacts with it. This vulnerability was patched in 2.0.8. Users are advised to upgrade.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h

Patch x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Exploit x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md

View Exploit ZIP pw:eip

Release Notes x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9

EPSS 0.0034

EPSS Percentile 25.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (2)

ecies/go < 2.0.8

ecies/go 0 - 2.0.8Go

Published Dec 05, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026