CVE-2017-1000097
published 2017-10-05CVE-2017-1000097: 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…
PriorityP335high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNIHAN
EPSS
1.29%
66.6th percentile
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.
Affected
3 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| golang | go | < 1.6.4 | 1.6.4 |
| golang | go | >= 1.7 < 1.7.4 | 1.7.4 |
| msrc | azl3_golang_1.24.3-1_on_azure_linux_3.0 | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
vendor_msrc7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
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OSV
Mishandled trust preferences for root certificates on Darwin in crypto/x509
osv·2022-05-24
CVE-2017-1000097 Mishandled trust preferences for root certificates on Darwin in crypto/x509
Mishandled trust preferences for root certificates on Darwin in crypto/x509
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.
GHSA
GHSA-2g28-jxx8-mj9h: On Darwin, user's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2017-1000097 [HIGH] CWE-295 GHSA-2g28-jxx8-mj9h: On Darwin, user's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
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.
Microsoft
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
vendor_msrc·2017-10-10·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2017-1000097 [HIGH] CWE-295 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
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.
FAQ: Is Azure Linux the only Microsoft product that includes this open-source library and is therefore potentially affected by this vulnerability?
One of the main benefits to our customers who choose to use the Azure Linux distro is the commitment to keep it up to date with the most recent and most secure versions of the open source libraries with which the distro is composed. Microsoft is committed to transparency in this work which is why we began publishing CSAF/VEX in October 2025. See this blog post for more information. If impact to additional
Red Hat
golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
vendor_redhat·2016-12-01·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2017-1000097 [HIGH] CWE-295 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
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.
Package: golang (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Will not fix
Package: golang (Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3) - Affected
Package: golang (Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) Operational Tools) - Not affected
Package: golang (Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools) - Will not fix
Package: golang (Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools) - Will not fix
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
bugzilla·2016-12-14·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2017-1000097 [HIGH] CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored
It was found that 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.
Upstream bug:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18141
Upstream patch:
https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/33721/
External Reference:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-dev/4NdLzS8sls8/uIz8QlnIBQAJ
Discussion:
Created golang tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1404638]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1404639]
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored [epel-all]
bugzilla·2016-12-14·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2017-1000097 [HIGH] CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored [epel-all]
CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored [epel-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora EPEL.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects mult
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2016-12-14·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2017-1000097 [HIGH] CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored [fedora-all]
CVE-2017-1000097 golang: User's trust preferences for root certificates were not honored [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multipl
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18141https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/33721/https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/golang-dev/4NdLzS8sls8/uIz8QlnIBQAJhttps://github.com/golang/go/issues/18141https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/33721/https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/golang-dev/4NdLzS8sls8/uIz8QlnIBQAJ
2017-10-05
Published