CVE-2017-8932

CVE Details

Release Date:

2017-05-23

Description

A bug in the standard library ScalarMult implementation of curve P-256for amd64 architectures in Go before 1.7.6 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 causes incorrect results to be generated for specific input points. An adaptive attack can be mounted to progressively extract the scalar input to ScalarMult by submitting crafted points and observing failures to the derive correct output. This leads to a full key recovery attack against static ECDH, as used in popular JWT libraries.

See more information about CVE-2017-8932 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (golang)	ELSA-2017-1859	2017-08-09

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