CVE-2024-24783
Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm in crypto/x509
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.60%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2024-24783
To remediate CVE-2024-24783, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.21.8 or later
- —no fix listed
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 1.21.8 or later
Is CVE-2024-24783 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.21.8, >= 1.22.0-0, < 1.22.1
- from 0
- from 0
- from 0, < 1.21.8, >= 1.22.0-0, < 1.22.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |