Vulnerability CVE-2022-41722


Published: 2023-02-28

Description:
A path traversal vulnerability exists in filepath.Clean on Windows. On Windows, the filepath.Clean function could transform an invalid path such as "a/../c:/b" into the valid path "c:\b". This transformation of a relative (if invalid) path into an absolute path could enable a directory traversal attack. After fix, the filepath.Clean function transforms this path into the relative (but still invalid) path ".\c:\b".

 References:
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1568
https://go.dev/cl/468123
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/V0aBFqaFs_E
https://go.dev/issue/57274

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