GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f/GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f
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Published
2022-05-24T16:46:15Z
Modified
2024-09-11T06:13:45.280407Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Golang/x/crypto message forgery vulnerability
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Go / golang.org/x/crypto

Package

Name
golang.org/x/crypto
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Purl
pkg:golang/golang.org/x/crypto

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.0.0-20190424203555-c05e17bb3b2d