CVE-2019-11841A message-forgery issue was discovered in crypto/openpgp/clearsign/clearsign.go in supplementary Go cryptography libraries 2019-03-25.…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A message-forgery issue was discovered in crypto/openpgp/clearsign/clearsign.go in supplementary Go cryptography libraries 2019-03-25. According to the OpenPGP Message Format specification in RFC 4880 chapter 7, a cleartext signed message can contain one or more optional "Hash" Armor Headers. The "Hash" Armor Header specifies the message digest algorithm(s) used for the signature. However, the Go clearsign package ignores the value of this header, which allows an attacker to spoof it. Consequently, an attacker can lead a victim to believe the signature was generated using a different message digest algorithm than what was actually used. Moreover, since the library skips Armor Header parsing in general, an attacker can not only embed arbitrary Armor Headers, but also prepend arbitrary text to cleartext messages without invalidating the signatures.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogolang.org/x/cryptoGHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://sec-consult.com/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://go.googlesource.com/crypto/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152840/Go-Cryptography-Libraries-Cleartext-Message-Spoofing.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://sec-consult.com/en/blog/advisories/cleartext-message-spoofing-in-go-cryptography-libraries-cve-2019-11841/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190913 [SECURITY] [DLA 1920-1] golang-go.crypto security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201007 [SECURITY] [DLA 2402-1] golang-go.crypto security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230616 [SECURITY] [DLA 3455-1] golang-go.crypto security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-5700 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x3jr-pf6g-c48f (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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