CVE-2019-6486

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.

Category

8.2
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.08% Top 25%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903 third party advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360 third party advisory patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html third party advisory mailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740 third party advisory vdb entry
https://github.com/google/wycheproof third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2019-6486?
CVE-2019-6486 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2019-6486?
To fix CVE-2019-6486, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2019-6486 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2019-6486 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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