CVE-2017-8932

Public on 2017-07-06
Modified on 2017-07-14
Description
A carry propagation flaw was found in the implementation of the P-256 elliptic curve in golang. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to extract private keys when static ECDH was used.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 golang 2017-07-13 ALAS-2017-857 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N