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High · 7.7 CVE-2020-26284 EUVD-2021-1294GHSA-8j34-9876-pvfq

Hugo can execute a binary from the current directory on Windows

Published Dec 21, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Hugo is a fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built in Go. Hugo depends on Go's `os/exec` for certain features, e.g. for rendering of Pandoc documents if these binaries are found in the system `%PATH%` on Windows. In Hugo before version 0.79.1, if a malicious file with the same name (`exe` or `bat`) is found in the current working directory at the time of running `hugo`, the malicious command will be invoked instead of the system one. Windows users who run `hugo` inside untrusted Hugo sites are affected. Users should upgrade to Hugo v0.79.1. Other than avoiding untrusted Hugo sites, there is no workaround.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gohugoio hugo < 0.79.1 —

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
Debian 14 hugo 0.79.1-1 —
Debian 13 hugo 0.79.1-1 —
Debian 12 hugo 0.79.1-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/gohugoio/hugo < 0.79.1 0.79.1 GHSA-8j34-9876-pvfq

References