Allele Security Alert
ASA-2018-00074
Identifier(s)
ASA-2018-00074, CVE-2018-16873
Title
Remote command execution during “go get -u”
Vendor(s)
The Go Authors
Product(s)
Go
Affected version(s)
Go before 1.11.3 and 1.10.6
Fixed version(s)
Go 1.11.3
Go 1.10.6
Proof of concept
Unknown
Description
The “go get” command is vulnerable to remote code execution when executed with the -u flag and the import path of a malicious Go package, or a package that imports it directly or indirectly. Specifically, it is only vulnerable in GOPATH mode, but not in module mode. Using custom domains, it’s possible to arrange things so that a Git repository is cloned to a folder named .git by using a vanity import path that ends with “/.git”. If the Git repository root contains a HEAD file, a config file, an objects directory, a refs directory, with some work to ensure the proper ordering of operations, “go get -u” can be tricked into considering the parent directory as a repository root, and running Git commands on it. That will use the config file in the original Git repository root for its configuration, and if that config file contains malicious commands, they will execute on the system running “go get -u”.
Technical details
Unknown
Credits
Etienne Stalmans (Heroku platform security team)
Reference(s)
Go security releases 1.11.3 and 1.10.6
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/254
cmd/go: remote command execution during “go get -u” #29230
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29230
[release-branch.go1.11-security] cmd/go: reject ‘get’ of paths containing leading dots or unsupported characters
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/8954addb3294a5e664a9833354bafa58f163fe8f
[release-branch.go1.11-security] cmd/go/internal/get: reject Windows shortnames as path components
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/5aedc8af94c0a8ffc58cbd09993192dea9b238db
[release-branch.go1.10-security] cmd/go: reject ‘get’ of paths containing leading dots or unsupported characters
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/90d609ba6156299642d08afc06d85ab770a03972
[release-branch.go1.10-security] cmd/go/internal/get: reject Windows shortnames as path components
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7ef6ee2c5727f0d11206b4d1866c18e6ab4785be
CVE-2018-16873
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16873
CVE-2018-16873
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16873
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Last modified: February 11, 2019