CVE-2023-29403 (GCVE-0-2023-29403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-08 20:19 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:49
VLAI
Title
Unsafe behavior in setuid/setgid binaries in runtime
Summary
On Unix platforms, the Go runtime does not behave differently when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. This can be dangerous in certain cases, such as when dumping memory state, or assuming the status of standard i/o file descriptors. If a setuid/setgid binary is executed with standard I/O file descriptors closed, opening any files can result in unexpected content being read or written with elevated privileges. Similarly, if a setuid/setgid program is terminated, either via panic or signal, it may leak the contents of its registers.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-642 - External Control of Critical State Data
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library runtime Affected: 0 , < 1.19.10 (semver)
Affected: 1.20.0-0 , < 1.20.5 (semver)
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Credits
Vincent Dehors from Synacktiv
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