GO-2024-2598

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    GO-2024-2598

    Published: 5 Mar 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm in crypto/x509

    Details: Verifying a certificate chain which contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm will cause Certificate.Verify to panic. This affects all crypto/tls clients, and servers that set Config.ClientAuth to VerifyClientCertIfGiven or RequireAndVerifyClientCert. The default behavior is for TLS servers to not verify client certificates.

    References: https://go.dev/issue/65390, https://go.dev/cl/569339, https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/5pwGVUPoMbg

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: stdlib

    Purl: pkg:golang/stdlib

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.21.8

    Affected versions

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