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CVE-2018-12976

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

In Go Doc Dot Org (gddo) through 2018-06-27, an attacker could use specially crafted <go-import> tags in packages being fetched by gddo to cause a directory traversal and remote code execution.

Affected products

• Godoc Go Doc Dot Org: through 2018-06-27

References

• https://github.com/golang/gddo/commit/daffe1f90ec57f8ed69464f9094753fc6452e983
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/golang-announce/4rpTbfzYB1k/no6MEwlQAwAJ
• https://github.com/golang/gddo/commit/daffe1f90ec57f8ed69464f9094753fc6452e983
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/golang-announce/4rpTbfzYB1k/no6MEwlQAwAJ

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