VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-6486

CVSS score8.2 HIGH
EPSS probability4.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-01-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Description

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Primary references