CVE-2022-29804

Path traversal via Clean on Windows in path/filepath

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 2.39 % · percentile 84 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-08-09
Updated: 2024-08-03
Assigner: Go
NVD status: Modified

Description

Incorrect conversion of certain invalid paths to valid, absolute paths in Clean in path/filepath before Go 1.17.11 and Go 1.18.3 on Windows allows potential directory traversal attack.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

Advisories

GO-2022-0533 — Path traversal via Clean on Windows in path/filepath

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-34125
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-29804

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0339 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0199 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0969 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0622 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0701 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Splunk · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0428 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Splunk · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 1.17.11
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.18.0 < 1.18.3

Affected products

Product	Versions
Go standard library · path/filepath	affected 0 < 1.17.11 ; affected 1.18.0-0 < 1.18.3

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD