Google Go 1.6.3/1.7.3 on Darwin Root Certificate certificate validation

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Google Go 1.6.3/1.7.3 on Darwin. This affects an unknown part of the component Root Certificate Handler. This manipulation causes certificate validation. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-1000097. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Google Go 1.6.3/1.7.3 on Darwin (Programming Language Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Root Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

On Darwin, user's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored. If the user had a root certificate loaded in their Keychain that was explicitly not trusted, a Go program would still verify a connection using that root certificate.

The bug was discovered 10/03/2017. The weakness was released 10/05/2017 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-1000097 since 10/03/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/30/2022). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1587.003 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-107462. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Programming Language Software

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• Google

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• Go

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• 1.6.3
• 1.7.3

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.google.com/

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