CVE-2023-49292

Possible private key restoration in go package github.com/ecies/go

CVSS 4.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.3%CWE-200

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 4.9EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

04 Dec 2023Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

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

Affected products

ecies · go

References

https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8 https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h