CVE-2025-47906 (GCVE-0-2025-47906)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-18 18:41
Modified
2025-11-04 21:10
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
Summary
If the PATH environment variable contains paths which are executables (rather than just directories), passing certain strings to LookPath ("", ".", and ".."), can result in the binaries listed in the PATH being unexpectedly returned.
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Vendor Product Version
Go standard library os/exec Version: 0   ≤
Version: 1.24.0   ≤
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