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CVE-2023-49292

Published: Dec 4, 2023

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.9

MEDIUM

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
ecies	go	affected `< 2.0.8`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8

x_refsource_MISC

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