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TI-2024-39116 Aliases GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c

age vulnerable to malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities causing arbitrary binary execution

Priority LOW 38CWE-25Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
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Privileges required
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User interaction
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Attack complexity
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Impact type
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Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.

Summary

A plugin name containing a path separator may allow an attacker to execute an arbitrary binary. Such a plugin name can be provided to the age CLI through an attacker-controlled recipient or identity string, or to the [`plugin.NewIdentity`](https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age/plugin#NewIdentity), [`plugin.NewIdentityWithoutData`](https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age/plugin#NewIdentityWithoutData), or [`plugin.NewRecipient`](https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age/plugin#NewRecipient) APIs. On UNIX systems, a directory matching `${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/age-plugin-*` needs to exist for the attack to succeed. The binary is executed with a single flag, either `--age-plugin=recipient-v1` or `--age-plugin=identity-v1`. The standard input includes the recipient or identity string, and the random file key (if encrypting) or the header of the file (if decrypting). The format is constrained by the [age-plugin](https://c2sp.org/age-plugin) protocol. An equivalent issue was fixed by the [rage](https://github.com/str4d/rage) project, see advisory [GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w](https://github.com/str4d/rage/security/advisories/GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w). Thanks to ⬡-49016 for reporting this.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed filippo.io/age (Go): 1.2.1

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—filippo.io/age (Go)before 1.2.11.2.1Patch availableGHSA-32gq-x56h-299c
  • filippo.io/age (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.2.1 Fixed in 1.2.1 Patch available GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c filippo.io/age (Go) Fixed in 1.2.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c

References

Sources

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