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HistoryMay 24, 2022 - 4:46 p.m.

Golang/x/crypto message forgery vulnerability

2022-05-2416:46:15
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5.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.8%

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 โ€œHashโ€ Armor Headers. The โ€œHashโ€ 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.

5.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.8%