Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting std/crypto/elliptic package, versions <1.14.14>=1.15.0-0 <1.15.7
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed17 Feb 2022
- creditThe elliptic-curve-differential-fuzzer project running on OSS-Fuzz, Philippe Antoine
Introduced: 17 Feb 2022
CVE-2021-3114 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/crypto/elliptic to version 1.14.14, 1.15.7 or higher.
Overview
std/crypto/elliptic is a Go standard library package std/crypto/elliptic
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm.
Go Vulnerability Report:
in the P224 process. An attacker can cause incorrect cryptographic computations by providing crafted input to the ScalarMult function.