CVE-2016-9121

Summary

CVECVE-2016-9121
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerhackerone
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-28 02:59:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 UTC
Descriptiongo-jose before 1.0.4 suffers from an invalid curve attack for the ECDH-ES algorithm. When deriving a shared key using ECDH-ES for an encrypted message, go-jose neglected to check that the received public key on a message is on the same curve as the static private key of the receiver, thus making it vulnerable to an invalid curve attack.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.0 9.1 CRITICAL from [email protected]

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-326 | Cryptographic Issue


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.0[email protected]Primary9.1CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
2.0[email protected]Primary6.4AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Go-jose Project Go-jose All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na Go JOSE All Versions Before 1.0.4 affected Go JOSE All versions before 1.0.4 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hackerone.com Permissions Required
oss-security - CVE request: multiple issues in go-jose package af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Merge branch 'cs/164590' · square/go-jose@c758193 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982076 Go (go) Security Update for gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v1 (GHSA-86r9-39j9-99wp)
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