High severity · published Oct 5, 2017
CVE-2017-1000097
On Darwin, user's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
7.5
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
On Darwin, user's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored. If the user had a root certificate loaded in their Keychain that was explicitly not trusted, a Go program would still verify a connection using that root certificate.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
GO · Golang
before 1.6.4; 1.7 before 1.7.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000097
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000097
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18141
Broken Link
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/33721/
groups.google.com
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/golang-dev/4NdLzS8sls8/uIz8QlnIBQAJ
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