Is CVE-2017-8932 actively exploited?

CVE-2017-8932 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-04-20.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2017-8932?

CVE-2017-8932 has a CVSS score of 5.9 (MEDIUM severity). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

How do I patch CVE-2017-8932?

Patch guidance is available from golang security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2017-8932.

CVE-2017-8932 - remediation guidance & executive summary

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2017-8932?

6 products: golang go, golang go, golang go, novell suse package hub for suse linux enterprise, fedoraproject fedora, and 1 more.

Description

A bug in the standard library ScalarMult implementation of curve P-256 for amd64 architectures in Go before 1.7.6 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 causes incorrect results to be generated for specific input points. An adaptive attack can be mounted to progressively extract the scalar input to ScalarMult by submitting crafted points and observing failures to the derive correct output. This leads to a full key recovery attack against static ECDH, as used in popular JWT libraries.

CVSS Metrics

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector: network
Complexity: high
Privileges: none
User Action: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: high
Integrity: none
Availability: none
Weaknesses: CWE-682

Metadata

Primary Vendor: GOLANG
Published: 7/6/2017
Last Modified: 4/20/2025
Source: NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

golang : gogolang : gogolang : gonovell : suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprisefedoraproject : fedoraopensuse : leap

Remediation Guidance

Executive Summary

View on NIST NVD