Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2024-1394

High 7.5

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A memory leak flaw was found in Golang in the RSA encrypting/decrypting code, which might lead to a resource exhaustion vulnerability using attacker-controlled inputs​. The memory leak happens in github.com/golang-fips/openssl/openssl/rsa.go#L113. The objects leaked are pkey​ and ctx​. That function uses named return parameters to free pkey​ and ctx​ if there is an error initializing the context or setting the different properties. All return statements related to error cases follow the "return nil, nil, fail(...)" pattern, meaning that pkey​ and ctx​ will be nil inside the deferred function that should free them.

References10

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGH Score source: CNA CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
2% percentile: 75 · as of 5 November 2026
CWE
CWE-401

Could this be exploited in your environment?

A patch closes the known hole. A penetration test shows what an attacker can still reach — with proof.

Request a pentest