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CVE-2020-28366

Published: 18 November 2020

Code injection in the go command with cgo before Go 1.14.12 and Go 1.15.5 allows arbitrary code execution at build time via a malicious unquoted symbol name in a linked object file.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
Packages built using golang need to be rebuilt once the
vulnerability has been fixed. This CVE entry does not
list packages that need rebuilding outside of the main
repository or the Ubuntu variants with PPA overlays.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
golang
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.6
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

impish Does not exist

xenial Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.10
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

trusty Needed

xenial Needed

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

bionic Needed

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.14
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Needed

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (1.14.12)
xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.8
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

impish Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

bionic Needed

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.9
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

bionic Needed

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.13
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty Does not exist

bionic Needed

focal Needed

hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
jammy Needed

impish Ignored
(end of life)
lunar Does not exist

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needed

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.15
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

impish Ignored
(end of life)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (1.15.5)
xenial Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H