Possible private key restoration in go package github.com/ecies/go

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-49292",
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  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Possible private key restoration in go package github.com/ecies/go",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-49292",
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    "severity": "medium",
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        "GO-2023-2380"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:35.668243975Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/ashutosh1206/Crypton/blob/master/Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange/Attack-Invalid-Curve-Point/README.md",
        "https://github.com/ecies/go/releases/tag/v2.0.8",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/49xxx/CVE-2023-49292.json",
        "https://github.com/ecies/go/security/advisories/GHSA-8j98-cjfr-qx3h",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49292",
        "https://github.com/ecies/go/commit/c6e775163866d6ea5233eb8ec8530a9122101ebd"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 503037,
  "published_at": "2023-12-04T23:12:03.059+00:00"
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