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CVE-2025-61731highCWE-88

Arbitrary file write using cgo pkg-config directive in cmd/go

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 54% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Go toolchain · cmd/go