THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-17596
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-17596

Go vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Go before 1.12.11 and 1.3.x before 1.13.2 can panic upon an attempt to process network traffic containing an invalid DSA public key. There are several attack scenarios, such as traffic from a client to a server that verifies client certificates.
Affected vendor
Golang
Affected product
Go
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-436 — Interpretation Conflict
Published
2019-10-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-17596

  • Confirm whether Golang Go is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-17596.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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