CVE-2019-17596 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Go versions before 1.12.11 and 1.13.2, as well as various products like Arista, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition by sending specially crafted network traffic containing an invalid DSA public key, leading to a panic in the affected system. Despite its high CVSS score of 7.5, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.12, < 1.12.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.13, < 1.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVE-2019-17596
Sep 10, 2024golang: invalid public key causes panic in dsa.Verify
Oct 17, 2019Go 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.
Oct 8, 2019