Go
CVE-2018-7187
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization OS command sanitization, avoid shell exec
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used, does not validate the import path (get/vcs.go only checks for "://" anywhere in the string), which allows. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Avoid passing user input to shell commands. Use language-specific APIs instead of shell execution. Apply strict input validation with allowlists.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 1 package in go
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as OS Command Injection (CWE-78), which allows attackers to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the host. The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used, does not validate the import path (get/vcs.go only checks for "://" anywhere in the string), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted web site. Affected products include: Golang Go, Debian Debian Linux.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used, does not validate the import path (get/vcs.go only checks for "://" anywhere in the string), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted web site.
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Attack Technique
OS command injection occurs when an application passes unsanitized user input directly into system shell commands.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Denial of service against HTTP/2 server implementations allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server resour
The net/http package in Go through 1.6 does not attempt to address RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 namespace conflicts and there
Critical certificate validation bypass in Go crypto/tls during session resumption. If ClientCAs or RootCAs fields are mu
net/url in Go before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.8 mishandles malformed hosts in URLs, leading to an authorization by
Casdoor through 4.4.0 exposes its instance-wide built-in JWT signing private key unmasked through the /api/get-certs and
Host header injection in Nezha 2.2.3's OAuth2 redirect endpoint (/api/v1/oauth2/{provider}) allows an unauthenticated re
Session cross-wiring in SUSE NeuVector before 5.6.1 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain another user's a
Unauthenticated path traversal in Uber Kraken through 0.1.29 allows remote attackers to read files outside the configure
Denial of service in Temporal Server allows an authenticated caller holding at least namespace read permission to crash
Account takeover in Klever-Go's KleverUpdateAccountPermission built-in (all versions prior to 1.7.20) allows an attacker
Maliciously crafted on-chain account names processed by Klever-Go prior to 1.7.20 are spliced into Elasticsearch _bulk r
Path traversal in the uniget CLI (Go module gitlab.com/uniget-org/cli) before version 0.27.6 lets a local user read and
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