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

Affected packages
age < 1.2.1

Details

VuXML ID d9b0fea0-d564-11ef-b9bc-d05099c0ae8c
Discovery 2024-12-18
Entry 2025-01-18

Filippo Valsorda reports:

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, plugin.NewIdentityWithoutData, or plugin.NewRecipient APIs.

References

URL https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c