CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7919

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Mar 16, 2020 | 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:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Go Golang 1.12 (including) 1.12.6 (excluding)
Go Golang 1.13 (including) 1.13.7 (excluding)
Golang Ubuntu trusty *
Golang-1.10 Ubuntu bionic *
Golang-1.10 Ubuntu disco *
Golang-1.10 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Golang-1.10 Ubuntu trusty *
Golang-1.10 Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Golang-1.10 Ubuntu xenial *
Golang-1.11 Ubuntu trusty *
Golang-1.12 Ubuntu disco *
Golang-1.12 Ubuntu eoan *
Golang-1.13 Ubuntu bionic *
Golang-1.13 Ubuntu eoan *
Golang-1.13 Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Golang-1.13 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Golang-1.13 Ubuntu trusty *
Golang-1.13 Ubuntu upstream *
Golang-1.13 Ubuntu xenial *
Golang-1.14 Ubuntu focal *
Golang-1.14 Ubuntu groovy *
Golang-1.14 Ubuntu hirsute *
Golang-1.14 Ubuntu trusty *
Golang-1.6 Ubuntu trusty *

Potential Mitigations

References