CVE-2016-3958

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, related to use of the LoadLibrary function.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, related to use of the LoadLibrary function.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-23 19:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-08-13 21:47:00

Affected Software

Golang Go 1.6

1.6

References

[oss-security] 20160405 CVE request - Go - DLL loading, Big int

[oss-security] 20160405 Re: CVE request - Go - DLL loading, Big int

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14959

Vendor Advisory

https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/21428/

[golang-announce] 20160412 [security] Go 1.6.1 and 1.5.4 are released

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