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CVE-2022-41722

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2023-02-28 Modified: 2026-06-17

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".

Affected Platforms

Microsoft WindowsGolang Go

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References