High severity · published Feb 28, 2023
CVE-2022-41722
A path traversal vulnerability exists in filepath.Clean on Windows
7.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A path traversal vulnerability exists in filepath.Clean on Windows. On Windows, the filepath.Clean function could transform an invalid path such as "a/../c:/b" into the valid path "c:\b". This transformation of a relative (if invalid) path into an absolute path could enable a directory traversal attack. After fix, the filepath.Clean function transforms this path into the relative (but still invalid) path ".\c:\b".
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
GO · Golang
before 1.19.6; 1.20.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41722
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-41722
Issue Tracking
https://go.dev/cl/468123
Issue Tracking
https://go.dev/issue/57274
Mailing List
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/V0aBFqaFs_E
Vendor Advisory
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1568
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