CVE-2025-0913 (GCVE-0-2025-0913)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-11 17:17 – Updated: 2025-06-11 17:37
VLAI
Title
Inconsistent handling of O_CREATE|O_EXCL on Unix and Windows in os in syscall
Summary
os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|O_EXCL) behaved differently on Unix and Windows systems when the target path was a dangling symlink. On Unix systems, OpenFile with O_CREATE and O_EXCL flags never follows symlinks. On Windows, when the target path was a symlink to a nonexistent location, OpenFile would create a file in that location. OpenFile now always returns an error when the O_CREATE and O_EXCL flags are both set and the target path is a symlink.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library syscall Affected: 0 , < 1.23.10 (semver)
Affected: 1.24.0-0 , < 1.24.4 (semver)
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Go standard library os Affected: 0 , < 1.23.10 (semver)
Affected: 1.24.0-0 , < 1.24.4 (semver)
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Credits
Junyoung Park and Dong-uk Kim of KAIST Hacking Lab
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