GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-h34r-jxqm-qgpr juju/utils leaks private key in certs

MEDIUM Published 2025-07-01 Modified 2025-07-01 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-6224
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/juju/utils/v4/cert
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-312
Reviewed
2025-07-01

Affected packages

• Go github.com/juju/utils/v4/cert: < 4.0.4 → fixed in 4.0.4

Description

Summary Certs generated by v4 contain their private key. Details Background Recently, I encountered an API in Go that’s easy to misuse: sha512.Sum384 and sha512.New384().Sum look very similar and behave very differently. https://go.dev/play/p/kDCqqoYk84k demonstrates this. I want to discuss extending static analysis to detect this case with the go community, but before I do that, I want to make a best-effort pass at open-source projects to fix the existing bugs. I figured that if there were any vulnerabilities out there, they would be easy to find once that discussion begins, so it’s better to address them early. This work is a hobby project and has no affiliation with my employer, so I may be slow to respond due to existing commitments. PoC https://go.dev/play/p/vSW0U3Hq4qk Impact This code (cert.NewLeaf) generates certs with the SubjectKeyId set to `sha512.New384().Sum(/* private */ key)`. If a cert which was generated by cert.NewLeaf is transferred over the network in plaintext, as is often the case in TLS handshakes, an attacker listening on that network may sniff the cert and trivially extract the private key from it. This applies to client and server TLS certs generated by vulnerable versions of this library. Getting the server cert and its key would only require performing a TLS handshake (with a matching SNI) with the server. At that point, the attacker could impersonate the server. Similarly, getting the client cert and its key would require getting the client to perform a TLS handshake against an attacker-controlled server. At that point, an attacker could impersonate the client.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-6224 Certificate generation in juju/utils using the cert.NewLeaf function could include private information. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness

References