CVE-2018-16875
HIGH 7.5EPSS 6.4%
The crypto/x509 package of Go before 1.10.6 and 1.11.x before 1.11.3 does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients are affected.
- Affected
- [UNKNOWN] · golang
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v3.0 REDHAT
- 5.9 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C - EPSS
- 6.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile
- Published
- 2018-12-14
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- alexzorin/poc-cve-2018-168759★ · 2018-12-14
Security advisories
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00044.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106230
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16875
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-09