CVE-2022-29804: Golang Go

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Golang Go: before 1.17.11 (fixed in 1.17.11); from 1.18.0, before 1.18.3 (fixed in 1.18.3)

Published 2022-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.