CVE-2025-47906 (GCVE-0-2025-47906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 18:41 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:10
VLAI
Title
Unexpected paths returned from LookPath in os/exec
Summary
If the PATH environment variable contains paths which are executables (rather than just directories), passing certain strings to LookPath ("", ".", and ".."), can result in the binaries listed in the PATH being unexpectedly returned.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-115 - Misinterpretation of Input
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library os/exec Affected: 0 , < 1.23.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.24.0 , < 1.24.6 (semver)
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