On Darwin, user's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored. If the user had a root certificate loaded in their Keychain that was explicitly not trusted, a Go program would still verify a connection using that root certificate.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-1000097 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform Operational Tools 9 | golang | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7 | golang | Not affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 | golang | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 8.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7 | golang | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | golang | Will not fix |
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