CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-1000097

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Oct 05, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
2.6 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
4.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

On Darwin, users trust preferences for root certificates were not honored. If the user had a root certificate loaded in their Keychain that was explicitly not trusted, a Go program would still verify a connection using that root certificate.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Go Golang * 1.6.4 (excluding)
Go Golang 1.7 (including) 1.7.4 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References