CVE-2023-49292 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00187.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Ecies Subscribe	Go Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ecies:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-3162	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.
Github GHSA	GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h	github.com/ecies/go vulnerable to possible private key restoration

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md
https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd
https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8
https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-12-04T23:12:03.059Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T21:53:44.990Z

Reserved: 2023-11-24T16:45:24.313Z

Link: CVE-2023-49292

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-05T00:15:09.627

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:33:12.163

Link: CVE-2023-49292

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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