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CVE-2019-6486
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…
High8.2EPSS 4.5%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4380 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4379 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190206 [SECURITY] [DLA 1664-1] golang security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 106740 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/google/wycheproof (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1164 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1444 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1499 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1506 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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