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CVE-2012-2666

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-377

Description

golang/go in 1.0.2 fixes all.bash on shared machines. dotest() in src/pkg/debug/gosym/pclntab_test.go creates a temporary file with predicable name and executes it as shell script.

Affected products

• Go: 1.0.2

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765455
• https://codereview.appspot.com/5992078
• https://github.com/golang/go/commit/8ac275bb01588a8c0e6c0fe2de7fd11f08feccdd
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210902-0009/
• https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-2666
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765455
• https://codereview.appspot.com/5992078
• https://github.com/golang/go/commit/8ac275bb01588a8c0e6c0fe2de7fd11f08feccdd
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210902-0009/
• https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-2666

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