GO-2020-0012

Panic due to improper verification of cryptographic signatures in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2020-9283
Aliases
GHSA-ffhg-7mh4-33c4

Description

An attacker can craft an ssh-ed25519 or sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com public key, such that the library will panic when trying to verify a signature with it. If verifying signatures using user supplied public keys, this may be used as a denial of service vector.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Go · golang.org/x/cryptointroduced 0, fixed 0.0.0-20200220183623-bac4c82f6975

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database