What is CVE-2024-24783?

CVE-2024-24783 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Go Standard Library Crypto/x509, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2024-03-05.

How severe is CVE-2024-24783?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-24783 known to be exploited?

4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

NULL pointer dereference in Go Standard Library Crypto/x509

CVE-2024-24783

Verifying a certificate chain which contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm will cause Certificate.Verify to panic. This affects all crypto/tls clients, and servers that set Config.ClientAuth to VerifyClientCertIfGiven or RequireAndVerifyClientCert. The default behavior is for TLS servers to not verify client certificates.

EPSS: 0.007 (48.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Go Standard Library Crypto/x509 — versions 0, 1.22.0-0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-24783?: CVE-2024-24783 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Go Standard Library Crypto/x509, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2024-03-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-24783?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-24783 known to be exploited?: 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.