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TI-2022-20113 Aliases CVE-2022-41722GHSA-fp44-cj2j-3jhx

Path traversal on Windows in path/filepath

Priority MEDIUM 42CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-22 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

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".

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01678 77th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial path/filepath (Go standard library): 1.19.6, 1.20.1Red Hat: 3 advisoriesRed Hat: 1 fixed, 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Go standard librarypath/filepathbefore 1.19.6; 1.20.0-0 to before 1.20.11.19.6, 1.20.1Patch availableCNA
  • path/filepath VendorGo standard library Affected before 1.19.6; 1.20.0-0 to before 1.20.1 Fixed in 1.19.6, 1.20.1 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.19.6VulnerableGo standard library
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.20.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*1.20.0VulnerableGo standard library
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDRunning onMicrosoft
  • cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.19.6 Vulnerable ·Go standard library
  • cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:1.20.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.20.0 Vulnerable ·Go standard library
  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Running on ·Microsoft

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA path/filepath (Go standard library) Fixed in 1.19.6, 1.20.1

Red Hat 3 advisories

  • RHSA-2023:3366 Released 2023-06-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.2 packages and security update
    • Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 openstack-ironic-1:21.3.1-0.20230510075528.b3c902e.el9, openstack-ironic-api-1:21.3.1-0.20230510075528.b3c902e.el9, openstack-ironic-common-1:21.3.1-0.20230510075528.b3c902e.el9 +3
    • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 bpftool-7.0.0-284.16.1.el9_2, buildah-1:1.29.1-1.1.rhaos4.13.el9, buildah-tests-1:1.29.1-1.1.rhaos4.13.el9 +47
  • RHSA-2023:3304 Released 2023-05-30 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.1 bug fix and security update
    • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 openshift4/cloud-network-config-controller-rhel8, openshift4/network-tools-rhel8, openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel8 +42
  • RHSA-2023:1325 Released 2023-05-18 · Red Hat rating Important
    OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.0 security update
    • Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 python-werkzeug-2.0.3-4.el9, python3-werkzeug-2.0.3-4.el9
    • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 buildah-1:1.29.1-1.rhaos4.13.el9, buildah-tests-1:1.29.1-1.rhaos4.13.el9, cri-o-1.26.3-3.rhaos4.13.git641290e.el9 +27

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Cryostat 2Affected—
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed RHSA-2023:1325, RHSA-2023:3304, RHSA-2023:3366
Not affected: 46 products
  • Custom Metric Autoscaler operator for Red Hat Openshift
  • Ironic content for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Migration Toolkit for Applications 6
  • Migration Toolkit for Containers
  • Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
  • Network Observability Operator
  • Node HealthCheck Operator
  • Node Maintenance Operator
  • OpenShift API for Data Protection
  • OpenShift Pipelines
  • OpenShift Run Once Duration Override Operator
  • OpenShift Secondary Scheduler Operator
  • OpenShift Serverless
  • OpenShift Service Mesh 2
  • Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Red Hat Application Interconnect 1.0
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
  • Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS)
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4
  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2
  • Red Hat OpenShift on AWS
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4
  • Red Hat Openshift Sandboxed Containers
  • Red Hat Quay 3
  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Storage 3
  • Red Hat Web Terminal
  • Self Node Remediation Operator
  • Service Telemetry Framework 1.4 for RHEL 8
  • Service Telemetry Framework 1.5
  • cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
  • mirror registry for Red Hat OpenShift

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-41722
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fp44-cj2j-3jhx

References

Advisory 2

Other 2

  • TI-2020-00578 Improper certificate validation in Microsoft Windows KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-05208 The "go get" implementation in Go 1.9.4, when the -insecure command-line option is used… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2018-12083 Improper input validation in [UNKNOWN] golang CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2024-16306 Mishandling of corrupt central directory record in archive/zip CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
  • TI-2021-15910 Go before 1.16.9 and 1.17.x before 1.17.2 has a Buffer Overflow via large arguments in a… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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