CVE-2024-45339 (GCVE-0-2024-45339)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-28 01:03 – Updated: 2026-04-30 03:56
VLAI
Title
Vulnerability when creating log files in github.com/golang/glog
Summary
When logs are written to a widely-writable directory (the default), an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink and overwrite that sensitive file. To fix that, glog now causes the program to exit (with status code 2) when it finds that the configured log file already exists.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Credits
Josh McSavaney Günther Noack
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