CVE-2020-28366

Summary

CVECVE-2020-28366
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-18 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
DescriptionCode injection in the go command with cgo before Go 1.14.12 and Go 1.15.5 allows arbitrary code execution at build time via a malicious unquoted symbol name in a linked object file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-94

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application Golang Go All All All All
Application Golang Go All All All All
Application Netapp Cloud Insights Telegraf Agent - All All All
Application Netapp Trident - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GO-2022-0475 - Go Packages MISC pkg.go.dev
cmd/go: arbitrary code can be injected into cgo generated files · Issue #42559 · golang/go · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
062e0e5ce6df339dc26732438ad771f73dbf2292 - go - Git at Google MISC go.googlesource.com
[security] Go 1.15.5 and Go 1.14.12 are released groups.google.com
November 2020 Golang Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
cmd/go: arbitrary code can be injected into cgo generated files · Issue #42559 · golang/go · GitHub go.dev
Go: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-02) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: golang-1.14.13-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
go.dev/cl/269658 go.dev
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: golang-1.15.5-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 352291 Amazon Linux Security Update for golang: AL2012-2021-332
  • 501574 Alpine Linux Security Update for go
  • 670178 EulerOS Security Update for golang (EulerOS-SA-2021-1678)
  • 670947 EulerOS Security Update for golang (EulerOS-SA-2021-2582)
  • 690435 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for go (db4b2f27-252a-11eb-865c-00155d646400)
  • 710584 Gentoo Linux Go Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-02)
  • 750526 OpenSUSE Security Update for go1.15 (openSUSE-SU-2020:2139-1)
  • 750544 OpenSUSE Security Update for go1.14 (openSUSE-SU-2020:2067-1)
  • 750559 OpenSUSE Security Update for go1.14 (openSUSE-SU-2020:2047-1)
  • 900148 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for golang 1.13.15
  • 903030 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for golang (3602)
  • 907786 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for golang (3602-1)
  • 940378 AlmaLinux Security Update for go-toolset:rhel8 (ALSA-2020:5493)
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