Elliptic Curve Key Disclosure in go-jose · CVE-2016-9121 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Elliptic Curve Key Disclosure in go-jose

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 23, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 16, 2023

Package

github.com/square/go-jose (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.0.4

Patched versions

1.0.4

gopkg.in/square/go-jose.v1 (Go)

< 1.0.4

1.0.4

Description

go-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.

References

Reviewed May 20, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 23, 2021

Last updated Feb 16, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.1

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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