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Go CVE-2025-61731

HIGH
Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') (CWE-88)
2026-01-28 security@golang.org
7.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: golang
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Severity by source

Vendor (golang) PRIMARY
7.8 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SUSE
HIGH
qualitative
Red Hat
8.6 HIGH
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (golang).

CVSS VectorVendor: golang

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Analysis Generated
Mar 12, 2026 - 21:54 vuln.today
Patch released
Feb 06, 2026 - 18:43 nvd
Patch available
CVE Published
Jan 28, 2026 - 20:16 nvd
HIGH 7.8

DescriptionCVE.org

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "#cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a "--log-file" argument to this directive, causing pkg-config to write to an attacker-controlled location.

AnalysisAI

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "#cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. [CVSS 7.8 HIGH]

Technical ContextAI

Affects Go. Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "#cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a "--log-file" argument to this directive, causing pkg-config to write to an attacker-controlled location.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available — apply it immediately.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: High
Product Status
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container:2.1.3-4.34 Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container:2.1.3-7.7 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/toolbox:13.2-9.2 Image SL-Micro Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container:2.1.3-4.34 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/rt-os-container:2.1.3-5.33 Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/baremetal-os-container:2.2.1-7.35 Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/base-os-container:2.2.1-5.57 Affected

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