CVE-2019-17596

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 24, 2019 at 09:07 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:24 AM UTC
11 products affected across 6 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraEnterprise Linux

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 5%

Description

Go before 1.12.11 and 1.3.x before 1.13.2 can panic upon an attempt to process network traffic containing an invalid DSA public key. There are several attack scenarios, such as traffic from a client to a server that verifies client certificates.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 4.23.1f
v ≤ 0.25
v ≤ 1.7.2
1.12 ≤ v < 1.12.111.13 ≤ v < 1.13.2
Affected range stops below 1.12.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.13.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (13)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00043.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00044.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0101
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0329
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/34960
x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-announce/lVEm7llp0w0/VbafyRkgCgAJ
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00014.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00015.html

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-436

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