A vulnerability was found in Google Go up to 1.12.15/1.13.6 (Programming Language Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Go before 1.12.16 and 1.13.x before 1.13.7 (and the crypto/cryptobyte package before 0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68 for Go) allows attacks on clients (resulting in a panic) via a malformed X.509 certificate.

The weakness was disclosed 03/16/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at groups.google.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-7919 since 01/23/2020. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.12.16 or 1.13.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Programming Language Software

Vendor

• Google

Name

• Go

Version

• 1.12.0
• 1.12.1
• 1.12.2
• 1.12.3
• 1.12.4
• 1.12.5
• 1.12.6
• 1.12.7
• 1.12.8
• 1.12.9
• 1.12.10
• 1.12.11
• 1.12.12
• 1.12.13
• 1.12.14
• 1.12.15
• 1.13.0
• 1.13.1
• 1.13.2
• 1.13.3
• 1.13.4
• 1.13.5
• 1.13.6

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• open-source

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