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CVE-2019-17596

golang: invalid public key causes panic in dsa.Verify

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 17, 2019

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

Go before 1.12.11 and 1.3.x before 1.13.2 can panic upon an attempt to process network traffic containing an invalid DSA public key. There are several attack scenarios, such as traffic from a client to a server that verifies client certificates.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation