CVE-2023-29404 — Code Injection in Toolchain CMD GO

CWE-94 — Code Injection10 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
GO Toolchain CMD GOGolang GOFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedJun 8
Latest updateNov 14

Description

The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo. This may occur when running "go get" on a malicious module, or when running any other command which builds untrusted code. This is can by triggered by linker flags, specified via a "#cgo LDFLAGS" directive. The arguments for a number of flags which are non-optional are incorrectly considered optional, allowing disallowed flags to be smuggled through the LDFLAGS sanitization. This affects usage of both the gc and gccgo compil…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDgolang/go1.20.0 — 1.20.5+1
▶CVEListV5go_toolchain/cmd_go1.20.0-0 — 1.20.5+1

Also affects: Fedora 38

Patches

Patch: go.dev ↗Patch: go.dev ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
CVE-2023-29404: The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo↗2023-06-08
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OSV
Improper handling of non-optional LDFLAGS in go command with cgo in cmd/go↗2023-06-08
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CVEList
Improper handling of non-optional LDFLAGS in go command with cgo in cmd/go↗2023-06-08
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GHSA
GHSA-888h-rm2r-vrc7: The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo↗2023-06-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Go vulnerabilities↗2024-11-14
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Ubuntu
Go vulnerabilities↗2024-10-10
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Microsoft
Improper handling of non-optional LDFLAGS in go command with cgo in cmd/go↗2023-06-13
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Red Hat
golang: cmd/go: go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo↗2023-06-08
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Debian
CVE-2023-29404: golang-1.15 - The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo. This may...↗2023
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