CVE-2023-24538

Publication date 6 April 2023

Last updated 10 October 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Templates do not properly consider backticks (`) as Javascript string delimiters, and do not escape them as expected. Backticks are used, since ES6, for JS template literals. If a template contains a Go template action within a Javascript template literal, the contents of the action can be used to terminate the literal, injecting arbitrary Javascript code into the Go template. As ES6 template literals are rather complex, and themselves can do string interpolation, the decision was made to simply disallow Go template actions from being used inside of them (e.g. "var a = {{.}}"), since there is no obviously safe way to allow this behavior. This takes the same approach as github.com/google/safehtml. With fix, Template.Parse returns an Error when it encounters templates like this, with an ErrorCode of value 12. This ErrorCode is currently unexported, but will be exported in the release of Go 1.21. Users who rely on the previous behavior can re-enable it using the GODEBUG flag jstmpllitinterp=1, with the caveat that backticks will now be escaped. This should be used with caution.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
golang-1.10 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needed
golang-1.13 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.13.8-1ubuntu2.22.04.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.13.8-1ubuntu1.2
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.14 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.16 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.16.2-0ubuntu1~20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.17 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.17.13-3ubuntu1.2
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.18 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.4
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.19 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1.19.2-1ubuntu1.1
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.20 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.6 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.8 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
golang-1.9 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
golang-1.19
golang-1.20

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H