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CVE-2025-61731

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8
7.8CVSS HIGH

Summary

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "#cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a "--log-file" argument to this directive, causing pkg-config to write to an attacker-controlled location.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

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Recommendation

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

Official patch: https://go.dev/cl/736711 ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC