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CVE-2016-9123
go-jose before 1.0.5 suffers from a CBC-HMAC integer overflow on 32-bit architectures. An integer overflow could lead to authentication…
High7.5EPSS 2.1%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- hackerone
Description
go-jose before 1.0.5 suffers from a CBC-HMAC integer overflow on 32-bit architectures. An integer overflow could lead to authentication bypass for CBC-HMAC encrypted ciphertexts on 32-bit architectures.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Memory Corruption
- CWE-190 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-190 and its CVEs
Affected products
Go JOSE All versions before 1.0.5
- affected Go JOSE All versions before 1.0.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/square/go-joseGHSA-3fx4-7f69-5mmg (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/square/go-jose/commit/789a4c4bd4c118f7564954f441b29c153ccd6a96 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/03/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://hackerone.com/reports/165170 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3fx4-7f69-5mmg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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