CVE-2020-26284

Summary

CVECVE-2020-26284
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-21 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-23 19:34:00 UTC
DescriptionHugo is a fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built in Go. Hugo depends on Go's `os/exec` for certain features, e.g. for rendering of Pandoc documents if these binaries are found in the system `%PATH%` on Windows. In Hugo before version 0.79.1, if a malicious file with the same name (`exe` or `bat`) is found in the current working directory at the time of running `hugo`, the malicious command will be invoked instead of the system one. Windows users who run `hugo` inside untrusted Hugo sites are affected. Users should upgrade to Hugo v0.79.1. Other than avoiding untrusted Hugo sites, there is no workaround.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gohugo Hugo All All All All
Application Gohugo Hugo All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Hugo can execute a binary from the current directory on Windows · Advisory · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
proposal: os/exec: make LookPath not look in dot implicitly on Windows · Issue #38736 · golang/go · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982069 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/gohugoio/hugo (GHSA-8j34-9876-pvfq)
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