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CVE-2021-3115

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

Go before 1.14.14 and 1.15.x before 1.15.7 on Windows is vulnerable to Command Injection and remote code execution when using the "go get" command to fetch modules that make use of cgo (for example, cgo can execute a gcc program from an untrusted download).

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33
• Go: before 1.14.14; from 1.15 before 1.15.7 — fixed in 1.14.14, 1.15.7
• NetApp Cloud Insights Telegraf Agent: all versions
• NetApp StorageGRID: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Go 1.14.14, 1.15.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://blog.golang.org/path-security
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/mperVMGa98w
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWAYJGXWC232SG3UR3TR574E6BP3OSQQ/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0001/
• https://blog.golang.org/path-security
• https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/mperVMGa98w
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWAYJGXWC232SG3UR3TR574E6BP3OSQQ/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0001/

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