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CVE-2022-23806

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-252

Description

Curve.IsOnCurve in crypto/elliptic in Go before 1.16.14 and 1.17.x before 1.17.7 can incorrectly return true in situations with a big.Int value that is not a valid field element.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Go: before 1.16.14; from 1.17.0 before 1.17.7 — fixed in 1.16.14, 1.17.7
• NetApp Beegfs Csi Driver: all versions
• NetApp Cloud Insights Telegraf Agent: all versions
• NetApp Kubernetes Monitoring Operator: all versions
• NetApp StorageGRID: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Go 1.16.14, 1.17.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/SUsQn0aSgPQ
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00018.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220225-0006/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/SUsQn0aSgPQ
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00017.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00018.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02

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