GO-2023-1621

Incorrect calculation on P256 curves in crypto/internal/nistec

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2023-24532
Aliases
BIT-golang-2023-24532

Description

The ScalarMult and ScalarBaseMult methods of the P256 Curve may return an incorrect result if called with some specific unreduced scalars (a scalar larger than the order of the curve). This does not impact usages of crypto/ecdsa or crypto/ecdh.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Go · stdlibintroduced 0, fixed 1.19.7, introduced 1.20.0-0, fixed 1.20.2

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database