CVE-2023-49292: Ecies Go

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ecies is an Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme for secp256k1 in Golang. If funcations Encapsulate(), Decapsulate() and ECDH() could be called by an attacker, they could recover any private key that interacts with it. This vulnerability was patched in 2.0.8. Users are advised to upgrade.

Affected products

• Ecies Go: before 2.0.8 (fixed in 2.0.8)

Published 2023-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.