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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2020-26283 EUVD-2021-1391GHSA-r4gv-vj59-cccmGO-2022-0873

Control character injection in console output

Published Mar 24, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

go-ipfs is an open-source golang implementation of IPFS which is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. In go-ipfs before version 0.8.0, control characters are not escaped from console output. This can result in hiding input from the user which could result in the user taking an unknown, malicious action. This is fixed in version 0.8.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ipfs go-ipfs < 0.8.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 kubo 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 go-ipfs 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.15 go-ipfs 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.14 go-ipfs 0.8.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.13 go-ipfs 0.8.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs < 0.8.0 0.8.0 GHSA-r4gv-vj59-cccm

References