GO-2023-2375

Source
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-2375
Import Source
https://vuln.go.dev/ID/GO-2023-2375.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GO-2023-2375
Aliases
Related
Published
2023-12-05T16:16:44Z
Modified
2024-05-20T16:03:47Z
Summary
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls may exhibit a timing side channel
Details

Before Go 1.20, the RSA based TLS key exchanges used the math/big library, which is not constant time. RSA blinding was applied to prevent timing attacks, but analysis shows this may not have been fully effective. In particular it appears as if the removal of PKCS#1 padding may leak timing information, which in turn could be used to recover session key bits.

In Go 1.20, the crypto/tls library switched to a fully constant time RSA implementation, which we do not believe exhibits any timing side channels.

References

Affected packages

Go / stdlib

Package

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.20.0

Ecosystem specific

{
    "imports": [
        {
            "path": "crypto/tls",
            "symbols": [
                "Conn.Handshake",
                "Conn.HandshakeContext",
                "Conn.Read",
                "Conn.Write",
                "Dial",
                "DialWithDialer",
                "Dialer.Dial",
                "Dialer.DialContext",
                "rsaKeyAgreement.generateClientKeyExchange",
                "rsaKeyAgreement.processClientKeyExchange"
            ]
        }
    ]
}