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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-34558

The crypto/tls package of Go through 1.16.5 does not properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type when doing a RSA based key exchange, allowing a malicious TLS server to cause a TLS client to panic.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 6.98%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (6.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The crypto/tls package of Go through 1.16.5 does not properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type when doing a RSA based key exchange, allowing a malicious TLS server to cause a TLS client to panic.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
6.98% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-295
Affected
golang/go · fedoraproject/fedora · netapp/cloud insights telegraf · netapp/storagegrid · netapp/trident · oracle/timesten in-memory database
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.