CVE-2023-49292 Information

Description

ecies is an Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1 in Golang. If funcations Encapsulate() Decapsulate() and ECDH() could be called by an attacker they could recover any private key that interacts with it. This vulnerability was patched in 2.0.8. Users are advised to upgrade.

Reference

https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8