Improper Certificate Validation Affecting golang-1.10 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.41% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GOLANG110-1073801
  • published31 Jan 2020
  • disclosed16 Mar 2020

Introduced: 31 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-7919  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:18.04 golang-1.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.10 package and not the golang-1.10 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Go before 1.12.16 and 1.13.x before 1.13.7 (and the crypto/cryptobyte package before 0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68 for Go) allows attacks on clients (resulting in a panic) via a malformed X.509 certificate.

CVSS Scores

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