Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-6486 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Locate and Exploit Test APIs An attacker exploits a sample, demonstration, or test API that is insecure by default and should not be resident on production systems. Some applications include APIs that are intended to allow an administrator to test and refine their domain. These APIs should usually be disabled once a system enters a production environment. Testing APIs may expose a great deal of diagnostic information intended to aid an administrator, but which can also be used by an attacker to further refine their attack. Moreover, testing APIs may not have adequate security controls or may not have undergone rigorous testing since they were not intended for use in production environments. As such, they may have many flaws and vulnerabilities that would allow an attacker to severely disrupt a target.
- Flooding An attacker consumes the resources of a target by rapidly engaging in a large number of interactions with the target. This type of attack generally exposes a weakness in rate limiting or flow control in management of interactions. Since each request consumes some of the target's resources, if a sufficiently large number of requests must be processed at the same time then the target's resources can be exhausted. The degree to which the attack is successful depends upon the volume of requests in relation to the amount of the resource the target has access to, and other mitigating circumstances such as the target's ability to shift load or acquired additional resources to deal with the depletion. The more protected the resource and the greater the quantity of it that must be consumed, the more resources the attacker may need to have at their disposal. A typical TCP/IP flooding attack is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack where many machines simultaneously make a large number of requests to a target. Against a target with strong defenses and a large pool of resources, many tens of thousands of attacking machines may be required. When successful this attack prevents legitimate users from accessing the service and can cause the target to crash. This attack differs from resource depletion through leaks or allocations in that the latter attacks do not rely on the volume of requests made to the target but instead focus on manipulation of the target's operations. The key factor in a flooding attack is the number of requests the attacker can make in a given period of time. The greater this number, the more likely an attack is to succeed against a given target.
- Excessive Allocation An attacker causes the target to allocate excessive resources to servicing the attackers' request, thereby reducing the resources available for legitimate services and degrading or denying services. Usually, this attack focuses on memory allocation, but any finite resource on the target could be the attacked, including bandwidth, processing cycles, or other resources. This attack does not attempt to force this allocation through a large number of requests (that would be Resource Depletion through Flooding) but instead uses one or a small number of requests that are carefully formatted to force the target to allocate excessive resources to service this request(s). Often this attack takes advantage of a bug in the target to cause the target to allocate resources vastly beyond what would be needed for a normal request. For example, using an Integer Attack, the attacker could cause a variable that controls allocation for a request to hold an excessively large value. Excessive allocation of resources can render a service degraded or unavailable to legitimate users and can even lead to crashing of the target.
- XML Ping of the Death An attacker initiates a resource depletion attack where a large number of small XML messages are delivered at a sufficiently rapid rate to cause a denial of service or crash of the target. Transactions such as repetitive SOAP transactions can deplete resources faster than a simple flooding attack because of the additional resources used by the SOAP protocol and the resources necessary to process SOAP messages. The transactions used are immaterial as long as they cause resource utilization on the target. In other words, this is a normal flooding attack augmented by using messages that will require extra processing on the target.
- XML Entity Expansion An attacker submits an XML document to a target application where the XML document uses nested entity expansion to produce an excessively large output XML. XML allows the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. However, this capability can be abused to create excessive demands on a processor's CPU and memory. A small number of nested expansions can result in an exponential growth in demands on memory.
Nessus
NASL family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ALA_ALAS-2019-1172.NASL description Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks. (CVE-2019-6486) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 122760 published 2019-03-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122760 title Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2019-1172) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1172. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(122760); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/05"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-6486"); script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1172"); script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2019-1172)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks. (CVE-2019-6486)" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2019-1172.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Run 'yum update golang' to update your system." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-bin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-docs"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-misc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-race"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-src"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-tests"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/01/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/03/25"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/03/12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release"); if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (os_ver != "A") { if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI'; audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver); } if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"golang-1.10.6-1.48.amzn1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"golang-bin-1.10.6-1.48.amzn1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"golang-docs-1.10.6-1.48.amzn1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"golang-misc-1.10.6-1.48.amzn1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"golang-race-1.10.6-1.48.amzn1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"golang-src-1.10.6-1.48.amzn1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"golang-tests-1.10.6-1.48.amzn1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "golang / golang-bin / golang-docs / golang-misc / golang-race / etc"); }
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-3_0-0019_GO.NASL description An update of the go package has been released. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 126193 published 2019-06-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126193 title Photon OS 3.0: Go PHSA-2019-3.0-0019 NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-1499.NASL description This update for containerd, docker, docker-runc, go, go1.11, go1.12, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-5736: containerd: Fixing container breakout vulnerability (bsc#1121967). - CVE-2019-6486: go security release, fixing crypto/elliptic CPU DoS vulnerability affecting P-521 and P-384 (bsc#1123013). - CVE-2018-16873: go secuirty release, fixing cmd/go remote command execution (bsc#1118897). - CVE-2018-16874: go security release, fixing cmd/go directory traversal (bsc#1118898). - CVE-2018-16875: go security release, fixing crypto/x509 CPU denial of service (bsc#1118899). Other changes and bug fixes : - Update to containerd v1.2.5, which is required for v18.09.5-ce (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). - Update to runc 2b18fe1d885e, which is required for Docker v18.09.5-ce (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). - Update to Docker 18.09.5-ce see upstream changelog in the packaged (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). - docker-test: Improvements to test packaging (bsc#1128746). - Move daemon.json file to /etc/docker directory (bsc#1114832). - Revert golang(API) removal since it turns out this breaks >= requires in certain cases (bsc#1114209). - Fix go build failures (bsc#1121397). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125697 published 2019-06-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125697 title openSUSE Security Update : containerd / docker / docker-runc / etc (openSUSE-2019-1499) NASL family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks NASL id AL2_ALAS-2019-1172.NASL description Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.(CVE-2019-6486) Note: This CVE is also fixed in golang-1.11.3-2.amzn2.0.2 in the golang1.11 extras repository. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 122678 published 2019-03-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122678 title Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALAS-2019-1172) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2019-0651-1.NASL description This update for go1.11 to version 1.11.5 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2019-6486: Fixed a CPU Denial-of-Service vulnerability affecting crypto/ellpitic related to P-521 and P-384 (bsc#1123013 go#29903). Other bug fixes and changes made: Fix erroneous trailing backslash in %post script. Use better forms of -exec \; in some places. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 122970 published 2019-03-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122970 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : go1.11 (SUSE-SU-2019:0651-1) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2019-2_0-0173_GO.NASL description An update of the go package has been released. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128735 published 2019-09-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128735 title Photon OS 2.0: Go PHSA-2019-2.0-0173 NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2019-1149-1.NASL description This update for go1.10 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-6486: A CPU denial of service vulnerability affecting P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves was fixed. Other fixes: go1.10.8 (released 2019/01/23) security release fixes CVE-2019-6486. Enable build for %arm (bsc#1125768), with go1.4 as building with gccgo hangs (bsc#974800) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124647 published 2019-05-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124647 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : go1.10 (SUSE-SU-2019:1149-1) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4380.NASL description A vulnerability was discovered in the implementation of the P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which could result in denial of service and in some cases key recovery. In addition this update fixes two vulnerabilities in last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-04 plugin id 121558 published 2019-02-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121558 title Debian DSA-4380-1 : golang-1.8 - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-1444.NASL description This update for containerd, docker, docker-runc, go, go1.11, go1.12, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-5736: containerd: Fixing container breakout vulnerability (bsc#1121967). - CVE-2019-6486: go security release, fixing crypto/elliptic CPU DoS vulnerability affecting P-521 and P-384 (bsc#1123013). - CVE-2018-16873: go secuirty release, fixing cmd/go remote command execution (bsc#1118897). - CVE-2018-16874: go security release, fixing cmd/go directory traversal (bsc#1118898). - CVE-2018-16875: go security release, fixing crypto/x509 CPU denial of service (bsc#1118899). Other changes and bug fixes : - Update to containerd v1.2.5, which is required for v18.09.5-ce (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). - Update to runc 2b18fe1d885e, which is required for Docker v18.09.5-ce (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). - Update to Docker 18.09.5-ce see upstream changelog in the packaged (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). - docker-test: Improvements to test packaging (bsc#1128746). - Move daemon.json file to /etc/docker directory (bsc#1114832). - Revert golang(API) removal since it turns out this breaks >= requires in certain cases (bsc#1114209). - Fix go build failures (bsc#1121397). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125452 published 2019-05-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125452 title openSUSE Security Update : containerd / docker / docker-runc / etc (openSUSE-2019-1444) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-1164.NASL description This update for go1.11 to version 1.11.5 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2019-6486: Fixed a CPU Denial-of-Service vulnerability affecting crypto/ellpitic related to P-521 and P-384 (bsc#1123013 go#29903). Other bug fixes and changes made : - Fix erroneous trailing backslash in %post script. - Use better forms of -exec \; in some places. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123819 published 2019-04-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123819 title openSUSE Security Update : go1.11 (openSUSE-2019-1164) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-DBD82D0882.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2019-6486 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2019-02-05 plugin id 121582 published 2019-02-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121582 title Fedora 29 : golang (2019-dbd82d0882) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1664.NASL description It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability or possibly even the ability to conduct private key recovery attacks within in the elliptic curve cryptography handling in the Go programming language libraries. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121626 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121626 title Debian DLA-1664-1 : golang security update NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4379.NASL description A vulnerability was discovered in the implementation of the P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which could result in denial of service and in some cases key recovery. In addition this update fixes a vulnerability in last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-04 plugin id 121557 published 2019-02-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121557 title Debian DSA-4379-1 : golang-1.7 - security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2019-1234-2.NASL description This update for containerd, docker, docker-runc, go, go1.11, go1.12, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-5736: containerd: Fixing container breakout vulnerability (bsc#1121967). CVE-2019-6486: go security release, fixing crypto/elliptic CPU DoS vulnerability affecting P-521 and P-384 (bsc#1123013). CVE-2018-16873: go secuirty release, fixing cmd/go remote command execution (bsc#1118897). CVE-2018-16874: go security release, fixing cmd/go directory traversal (bsc#1118898). CVE-2018-16875: go security release, fixing crypto/x509 CPU denial of service (bsc#1118899). Other changes and bug fixes: Update to containerd v1.2.5, which is required for v18.09.5-ce (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). Update to runc 2b18fe1d885e, which is required for Docker v18.09.5-ce (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). Update to Docker 18.09.5-ce see upstream changelog in the packaged (bsc#1128376, bsc#1134068). docker-test: Improvements to test packaging (bsc#1128746). Move daemon.json file to /etc/docker directory (bsc#1114832). Revert golang(API) removal since it turns out this breaks >= requires in certain cases (bsc#1114209). Fix go build failures (bsc#1121397). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125920 published 2019-06-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125920 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : containerd, docker, docker-runc, go, go1.11, go1.12, golang-github-docker-libnetwork (SUSE-SU-2019:1234-2)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740
- https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903
- https://github.com/google/wycheproof
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw
- https://github.com/google/wycheproof
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903
- https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html