CVE-2018-16875CWE-20

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…

Medium · published December 14, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.9
EPSS
6%
Percentile
93.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.06377 · 93.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2018-12-14T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 DEC 14:00Z
    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…
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