ecies go 2.0.8 Encapsulate/Decapsulate/ECDH information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in ecies go 2.0.8 and classified as problematic. This affects the function Encapsulate/Decapsulate/ECDH. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2023-49292. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in ecies go 2.0.8. This affects the function Encapsulate/Decapsulate/ECDH. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

ecies is an Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1 in Golang. If funcations Encapsulate(), Decapsulate() and ECDH() could be called by an attacker, they could recover any private key that interacts with it. This vulnerability was patched in 2.0.8. Users are advised to upgrade.

The weakness was disclosed 12/05/2023 as GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-49292 since 11/24/2023. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2.0.8 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.2

VulDB Base Score: 3.1
VulDB Temp Score: 3.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: go 2.0.8
Patch: c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd

Timelineinfo

11/24/2023 🔍
12/05/2023 +11 days 🔍
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12/23/2023 +18 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-49292 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-49292
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-246837

Entryinfo

Created: 12/05/2023 08:15
Updated: 12/23/2023 12:36
Changes: 12/05/2023 08:15 (54), 12/23/2023 12:36 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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