Uncaught Exception Affecting std/crypto/elliptic package, versions <1.17.9>=1.18.0-0 <1.18.1
Threat Intelligence
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed20 May 2022
- creditProject Wycheproof
Introduced: 20 May 2022
CVE-2022-28327 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/crypto/elliptic to version 1.17.9, 1.18.1 or higher.
Overview
std/crypto/elliptic is a Go standard library package std/crypto/elliptic
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncaught Exception.
Go Vulnerability Report:
via the P256().ScalarMult or P256().ScalarBaseMult functions when provided with a crafted scalar input longer than 32 bytes. An attacker can cause a panic and potentially disrupt service by supplying such an input. This is only exploitable if the architecture is not amd64, arm64, ppc64le, or s390x.