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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2025-61731

Arbitrary file write using cgo pkg-config directive in cmd/go

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Go

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Go toolchain cmd/go

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 1.24.12affected
  • 1.25.0 to < 1.25.6affected

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