CVE-2021-3115 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2021-3115?

CVE-2021-3115 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Jan 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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).

Weakness: CWE-427

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-3115?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including golang and toolchain. It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Golang Go, Netapp Cloud Insights Telegraf Agent, Netapp Storagegrid.

How do I fix CVE-2021-3115?

Upgrade golang to a fixed version for your release line: 1.14.14 or 1.15.7.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2021-3115 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-3115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-38572, BIT-golang-2021-3115, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3115, GHSA-79cw-x93g-q95p, GO-2021-0068.