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CVE-2024-24783 (GCVE-0-2024-24783)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-05 22:22 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:40
VLAI
Title
Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm in crypto/x509
Summary
Verifying a certificate chain which contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm will cause Certificate.Verify to panic. This affects all crypto/tls clients, and servers that set Config.ClientAuth to VerifyClientCertIfGiven or RequireAndVerifyClientCert. The default behavior is for TLS servers to not verify client certificates.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-03-06 18:26 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library crypto/x509 Affected: 0 , < 1.21.8 (semver)
Affected: 1.22.0-0 , < 1.22.1 (semver)
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Credits
John Howard (Google)
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