CVE-2023-45287
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls may exhibit a timing side channel
At a glance
- Severity
- Not available
- EPSS
- EPSS 1.25 % · percentile 69 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Go
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based TLS key exchanges used the math/big library, which is not constant time. RSA blinding was applied to prevent timing attacks, but analysis shows this may not have been fully effective. In particular it appears as if the removal of PKCS#1 padding may leak timing information, which in turn could be used to recover session key bits. In Go 1.20, the crypto/tls library switched to a fully constant time RSA implementation, which we do not believe exhibits any timing side channels.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
Advisories
- GO-2023-2375 — Before Go 1.20, the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls may exhibit a timing side channel
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-49587
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-45287
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0339 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-0199 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-1013 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0969 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0622 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0524 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans VMware Tanzu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0256 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Broadcom VMware Tanzu Greenplum · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-1104 — Vulnérabilité dans les produits NetApp · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0741 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Juniper Secure Analytics · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0646 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*< 1.20.0
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Go standard library · crypto/tls | affected 0 < 1.20.0 |
References
- https://go.dev/issue/20654
- https://go.dev/cl/326012/26
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/QMK8IQALDvA
- https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-2375
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240112-0005/
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |