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CVE-2022-29804 (GCVE-0-2022-29804)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 06:33
VLAI
Title
Path traversal via Clean on Windows in path/filepath
Summary
Incorrect conversion of certain invalid paths to valid, absolute paths in Clean in path/filepath before Go 1.17.11 and Go 1.18.3 on Windows allows potential directory traversal attack.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library path/filepath Affected: 0 , < 1.17.11 (semver)
Affected: 1.18.0-0 , < 1.18.3 (semver)
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Unrud
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