GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f Golang/x/crypto message forgery vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-24 Modified 2023-10-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-11841
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
golang.org/x/crypto
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-347
Reviewed
2023-08-01

Affected packages

• Go golang.org/x/crypto: < 0.0.0-20190424203555-c05e17bb3b2d → fixed in 0.0.0-20190424203555-c05e17bb3b2d

Description

A message-forgery issue was discovered in `crypto/openpgp/clearsign/clearsign.go` in supplementary Go cryptography libraries 2019-03-25. According to the OpenPGP Message Format specification in RFC 4880 chapter 7, a cleartext signed message can contain one or more optional "Hash" Armor Headers. The "Hash" Armor Header specifies the message digest algorithm(s) used for the signature. However, the Go clearsign package ignores the value of this header, which allows an attacker to spoof it. Consequently, an attacker can lead a victim to believe the signature was generated using a different message digest algorithm than what was actually used. Moreover, since the library skips Armor Header parsing in general, an attacker can not only embed arbitrary Armor Headers, but also prepend arbitrary text to cleartext messages without invalidating the signatures.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-11841 A message-forgery issue was discovered in crypto/openpgp/clearsign/clearsign.go in supplementary Go cryptography libraries 2019-03-25. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References