CVE-2024-24783 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-24783

Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm in crypto/x509

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • John Howard (Google)

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Affected Vendor

Go standard library

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Affected Software

crypto/x509
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.22.0-0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 5th, 2024
Last Modified: February 13th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.