CVE-2025-47906

Unexpected paths returned from LookPath in os/exec

MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.55 % · percentile 46 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Go
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

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.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:LCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:LNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Go standard library · os/execaffected 0 < 1.23.12 ; affected 1.24.0 < 1.24.6

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD