Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting std/path/filepath package, versions <1.20.11>=1.21.0-0 <1.21.4
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed8 Nov 2023
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 8 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-45284 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/path/filepath to version 1.20.11, 1.21.4 or higher.
Overview
std/path/filepath is a Go standard library package std/path/filepath
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions.
Go Vulnerability Report:
On Windows, The IsLocal function does not correctly detect reserved device names in some cases. Reserved names followed by spaces, such as "COM1 ", and reserved names "COM" and "LPT" followed by superscript 1, 2, or 3, are incorrectly reported as local. With fix, IsLocal now correctly reports these names as non-local.