CVE-2022-41722

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Published 2023-02-16 · Modified 2026-02-04

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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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".

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-41722

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.19.6-2`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	stdlib	`>=1.20.0-0,<1.20.1`	`1.19.6`

References

https://go.dev/issue/57274
https://go.dev/cl/468123
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/V0aBFqaFs_E
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-41722

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.