CVE-2023-49292
Possible private key restoration in go package github.com/ecies/go
MEDIUM
4.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 4, 2023 at 11:12 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:35 AM UTC
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Severity
MEDIUM4.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
x_refsource_MISCPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebdx_refsource_MISCRelease Notes
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3hCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- LOW
- Integrity
- LOW
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200NVD-CWE-noinfo
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