CVE-2018-6574

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · Code injection

7.8CVSS HIGH

Summary

Go before 1.8.7, Go 1.9.x before 1.9.4, and Go 1.10 pre-releases before Go 1.10rc2 allow "go get" remote command execution during source code build, by leveraging the gcc or clang plugin feature, because -fplugin= and -plugin= arguments were not blocked.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredLow

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactHigh

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)37%

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0878Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1304Advisory
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23672Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-nuts/Gbhh1NxAjMU
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-nuts/sprOaQ5m3Dk
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0878Advisory
https://github.com/KINGSABRI/CVE-in-Ruby/tree/master/CVE-2018-6574Advisory