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MEDIUM5.9

GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f

Golang/x/crypto message forgery vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f — golang.org/x/crypto: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get golang.org/x/crypto@v0.0.0-20190424203555-c05e17bb3b2d

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.

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Affected packages

Go/golang.org/x/crypto
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.0.0-20190424203555-c05e17bb3b2d
Fixgo get golang.org/x/crypto@v0.0.0-20190424203555-c05e17bb3b2d

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