CVE-2023-49292

Possible private key restoration in go package github.com/ecies/go

Published Dec 4, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 4.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-3162 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h github.com/ecies/go vulnerable to possible private key restoration
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 2, 2024, 9:53 PM
Reserved
Nov 24, 2023, 4:45 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 5, 2023, 12:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:35 AM