id: GO-2022-0201
modules:
    - module: cmd
      versions:
        - fixed: 1.8.7
        - introduced: 1.9.0-0
        - fixed: 1.9.4
      vulnerable_at: 1.9.3
      packages:
        - package: cmd/go
          skip_fix: 'TODO: revisit this reason (cant request explicit version of standard library package cmd/go)'
summary: Remote command execution via "go get" command with cgo in cmd/go
description: |-
    The "go get" command with cgo is vulnerable to remote command execution by
    leveraging the gcc or clang plugin feature.

    When cgo is enabled, the build step during "go get" invokes the host C compiler,
    gcc or clang, adding compiler flags specified in the Go source files. Both gcc
    and clang support a plugin mechanism in which a shared-library plugin is loaded
    into the compiler, as directed by compiler flags. This means that a Go package
    repository can contain an attack.so file along with a Go source file that says
    (for example) "// #cgo CFLAGS: -fplugin=attack.so" causing the attack plugin to
    be loaded into the host C compiler during the build. Gcc and clang plugins are
    completely unrestricted in their access to the host system.
published: 2022-08-09T18:15:41Z
cves:
    - CVE-2018-6574
credits:
    - Christopher Brown of Mattermost
references:
    - fix: https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/1dcb5836ad2c60776561da2923c70576ba2eefc6
    - report: https://go.dev/issue/23672
    - web: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/Gbhh1NxAjMU
review_status: REVIEWED