cmd-go up to 1.20.x on Go special element

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in cmd-go up to 1.20.x on Go. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to special element. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-24531. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in cmd-go up to 1.20.x on Go and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a special element vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-138. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as control elements or syntactic markers when they are sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Command go env is documented as outputting a shell script containing the Go environment. However, go env doesn't sanitize values, so executing its output as a shell script can cause various bad bahaviors, including executing arbitrary commands or inserting new environment variables. This issue is relatively minor because, in general, if an attacker can set arbitrary environment variables on a system, they have better attack vectors than making "go env" print them out.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-24531 since 01/25/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208702 (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Go vulnerabilities (USN-7061-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.21.0-0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208702). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• cmd-go

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20

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