GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h

github.com/ecies/go vulnerable to possible private key restoration

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2023-49292

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/ecies/go/v2	< 2.0.8	2.0.8

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact If functions `Encapsulate()`, `Decapsulate()` and `ECDH()` could be called by an attacker, he could recover any private key that he interacts with. ### Patches Patched in v2.0.8 ### Workarounds You could manually check public key by calling `IsOnCurve()` function from secp256k1 libraries. ### References https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49292 advisory
https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd web
https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md web
https://github.com/ecies/go package
https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8 web