CVE-2019-14809 Affecting golang-1.10 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.09% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GOLANG110-1073856
  • published13 Feb 2021
  • disclosed13 Aug 2019

Introduced: 13 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14809  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:18.04 golang-1.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.10 package and not the golang-1.10 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

net/url in Go before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.8 mishandles malformed hosts in URLs, leading to an authorization bypass in some applications. This is related to a Host field with a suffix appearing in neither Hostname() nor Port(), and is related to a non-numeric port number. For example, an attacker can compose a crafted javascript:// URL that results in a hostname of google.com.