GO-2023-2186

Incorrect detection of reserved device names on Windows in path/filepath

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2023-45284
Aliases
BIT-golang-2023-45284

Description

On Windows, The IsLocal function does not correctly detect reserved device names in some cases. Reserved names followed by spaces, such as "COM1 ", and reserved names "COM" and "LPT" followed by superscript 1, 2, or 3, are incorrectly reported as local. With fix, IsLocal now correctly reports these names as non-local.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Go · stdlibintroduced 0, fixed 1.20.11, introduced 1.21.0-0, fixed 1.21.4

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database