CVE-2022-41722

Publication date 28 February 2023

Last updated 29 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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".

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
golang-1.20	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.19	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

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This vulnerability can only be exploited in Windows. Binaries cross-compiled in Ubuntu are affected if they are later on used in Windows.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N