Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-8932
A bug in the standard library ScalarMult implementation of curve P-256 for 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.025
EPSS Ranking 84.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.9
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
Products affected by CVE-2017-8932
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Version: 0.0.0-20201203163018-be400aefbc4c
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:0.0.0-20201203163018-be400aefbc4c
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.6.4
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.7.5
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cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise:12
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25
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cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2