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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-GO-2757266
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Dec 2018
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Introduced: 28 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-16874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream go package and not the go package as distributed by SLES.

In Go before 1.10.6 and 1.11.x before 1.11.3, the "go get" command is vulnerable to directory traversal when executed with the import path of a malicious Go package which contains curly braces (both '{' and '}' characters). Specifically, it is only vulnerable in GOPATH mode, but not in module mode (the distinction is documented at https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Module_aware_go_get). The attacker can cause an arbitrary filesystem write, which can lead to code execution.

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