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CVE-2018-6574

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Go before 1.8.7, Go 1.9.x before 1.9.4, and Go 1.10 pre-releases before Go 1.10rc2 allow "go get" remote command execution during source code build, by leveraging the gcc or clang plugin feature, because -fplugin= and -plugin= arguments were not blocked.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Go: through 1.8.6; 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.10-beta1, 1.10-beta2 (+1)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.6

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0878
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1304
• https://github.com/KINGSABRI/CVE-in-Ruby/tree/master/CVE-2018-6574
• https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23672
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-nuts/Gbhh1NxAjMU
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-nuts/sprOaQ5m3Dk
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0878
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1304
• https://github.com/KINGSABRI/CVE-in-Ruby/tree/master/CVE-2018-6574
• https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23672
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-nuts/Gbhh1NxAjMU

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