CVE-2022-41722
Path traversal on Windows in path/filepath
At a glance
- Severity
- Not available
- EPSS
- EPSS 1.68 % · percentile 77 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Go
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
A path traversal vulnerability exists in filepath.Clean on Windows. On Windows, the filepath.Clean function could transform an invalid path such as "a/../c:/b" into the valid path "c:\b". This transformation of a relative (if invalid) path into an absolute path could enable a directory traversal attack. After fix, the filepath.Clean function transforms this path into the relative (but still invalid) path ".\c:\b".
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)
Advisories
- GO-2023-1568 — Path traversal on Windows in path/filepath
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-44895
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-41722
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-2025-AVI-0256 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Broadcom VMware Tanzu Greenplum · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2023-AVI-0701 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Splunk · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2023-AVI-0484 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2023-AVI-0272 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*< 1.19.6cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.20.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Go standard library · path/filepath | affected 0 < 1.19.6 ; affected 1.20.0-0 < 1.20.1 |
References
- https://go.dev/issue/57274
- https://go.dev/cl/468123
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/V0aBFqaFs_E
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1568
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 |