Uncaught Exception Affecting std/crypto/x509 package, versions <1.21.8>=1.22.0-0 <1.22.1
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed5 Mar 2024
- creditJohn Howard
Introduced: 5 Mar 2024
CVE-2024-24783 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/crypto/x509 to version 1.21.8, 1.22.1 or higher.
Overview
std/crypto/x509 is a Go standard library package std/crypto/x509
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncaught Exception.
Go Vulnerability Report:
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.