CVE-2023-49292 — ecies is an Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1 in Golang

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 adv

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
ecies	go	< 2.0.8

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-12-04T23:12:03.059Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T21:53:44.990Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h
• github.com — https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd
• github.com — https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/…
• github.com — https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8