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high 7.5

CVE-2017-1000097 json

Mishandled trust preferences for root certificates on Darwin in crypto/x509

published 2017-10-04 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GO-2022-0171 , EUVD-2017-1401

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go stdlib 1.6.4, 1.7.4
  • golang go 1.6.4, 1.7.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-1000097 updated cvss 4.3

golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 golang, golang-bin, golang-src, golang-misc, golang-tests
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 golang
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools golang, golang-src, golang-pkg-linux-amd64, golang-pkg-bin-linux-amd64 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools golang, golang-bin, golang-src
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) Operational Tools golang
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go stdlib
<1.6.4
>=1.7.0-0, <1.7.4
1.6.4
1.7.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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