CVE-2023-29405

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-06-08. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2023-32976 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq (GitHub Security Advisories) · GO-2023-1842 (OSV.dev)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo. This may occur when running "go get" on a malicious module, or when running any other command which builds untrusted code. This is can by triggered by linker flags, specified via a "#cgo LDFLAGS" directive. Flags containing embedded spaces are mishandled, allowing disallowed flags to be smuggled through the LDFLAGS sanitization by including them in the argument of another flag. This only affects usage of the gccgo compiler.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation1.7% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
1.7%
EPSS %ILE
77th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 8, 2023

Last Modified

January 6, 2025

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 10, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

cmd/go: improper sanitization of LDFLAGS [CVE-2023-29405] · Issue #60306 · golang/go · GitHub

https://go.dev/issue/60306
Web page

Go: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202311-09) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
Web page

GO-2023-1842 - Go Packages

https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1842
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: golang-1.20.6-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XBS3IIK6ADV24C5ULQU55QLT2UE762ZX/
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: golang-1.19.12-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NZ2O6YCO2IZMZJELQGZYR2WAUNEDLYV6/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-29405(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntugolang-1.18-src (1.18.1-1ubuntu1.2) @ jammy2026-11-11ubuntu
ubuntugolang-1.17-src (1.17.13-3ubuntu1.2) @ jammy2026-11-11ubuntu
redhatrhceph/snmp-notifier-rhel8:1.2.1-692024-06-26redhat
redhatgo-toolset:rhel8-8080020230627164522.6b4b45d82023-06-29redhat
redhatgo-toolset-1.19-golang-0:1.19.10-1.el7_92023-06-29redhat
redhatgo-toolset-0:1.19.10-1.el9_22023-06-29redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(10 across 10 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
go—
  • 1.20.0 up to 1.20.5-r0: fixed in 1.20.5-r0
—
Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
go—
  • 1.20.0 up to 1.20.5-r0: fixed in 1.20.5-r0
—
Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
go—
  • 1.20.0 up to 1.20.5-r0: fixed in 1.20.5-r0
—
Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
go—
  • 1.20.0 up to 1.20.5-r0: fixed in 1.20.5-r0
—
Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
go—
  • 1.20.0 up to 1.20.5-r0: fixed in 1.20.5-r0
—
Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
go—
  • 1.20.0 up to 1.20.5-r0: fixed in 1.20.5-r0
—
Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
go—
  • 1.20.0 up to 1.20.5-r0: fixed in 1.20.5-r0
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
golang-1.151.15.15-1 ... 1.15.9-6 (10 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
golang-1.191.19.10-1 ... 1.19.9-1 (12 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Go(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
toolchain—
  • every version up to 1.19.10: fixed in 1.19.10
  • 1.20.0-0 up to 1.20.5: fixed in 1.20.5
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(5)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 86× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 313 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 213 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  2. 2026-11-13 00:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-13 00:27 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-13 00:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  6. 2026-11-11 22:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-11 22:53 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-11 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-11 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  10. 2026-11-10 21:17 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-10 21:17 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-10 21:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-11-10 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  14. 2026-11-09 19:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-09 19:40 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-09 19:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-11-09 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  18. 2026-11-08 18:05 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-08 18:05 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-08 18:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-11-08 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  22. 2026-11-07 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  23. 2026-11-07 16:30 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-11-07 16:30 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-11-07 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-06 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  2. 2026-11-06 14:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-06 14:54 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-06 14:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-05 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  6. 2026-11-05 13:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-05 13:19 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-05 13:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-04 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  10. 2026-11-04 12:25 UTCOSV refresh
  11. 2026-11-04 11:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-04 11:44 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-11-04 11:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-11-03 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  15. 2026-11-03 10:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  16. 2026-11-03 10:08 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-11-03 10:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-11-02 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  19. 2026-11-02 08:30 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  20. 2026-11-02 08:30 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-11-02 08:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-11-01 06:55 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-01 06:55 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-11-01 06:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  26. 2026-10-31 05:20 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-10-31 05:20 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-31 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  29. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  30. 2026-10-30 03:45 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  31. 2026-10-30 03:45 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-30 03:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  33. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  34. 2026-10-29 02:11 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  35. 2026-10-29 02:11 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-29 02:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  37. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  38. 2026-10-28 00:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  39. 2026-10-28 00:35 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-28 00:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  41. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  42. 2026-10-26 22:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  43. 2026-10-26 22:57 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-26 22:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  45. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  46. 2026-10-25 18:04 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-25 18:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  48. 2026-10-25 17:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  49. 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  50. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  51. 2026-10-24 16:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  52. 2026-10-24 16:02 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-24 16:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  54. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  55. 2026-10-23 14:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  56. 2026-10-23 14:23 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-23 14:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  59. 2026-10-22 12:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  60. 2026-10-22 12:46 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-22 12:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  63. 2026-10-21 11:10 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  64. 2026-10-21 11:10 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-21 11:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  66. 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  67. 2026-10-20 09:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  68. 2026-10-20 09:35 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-20 09:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  70. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  71. 2026-10-19 07:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  72. 2026-10-19 07:58 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-19 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-68g3-2p3g-w9pq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  74. 2026-10-18 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  75. 2026-10-18 06:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-29405?
CVE-2023-29405 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 8, 2023. The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo. This may occur when running "go get" on a malicious module, or when running any other command which builds untrusted code. This is can by triggered by linker flags, specified via a "#cgo LDFLAGS" directive. Flags containing…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-29405 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-29405 was published on June 8, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of January 6, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-29405 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-29405 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (77th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-29405?
CVE-2023-29405 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-29405?
A fix for CVE-2023-29405 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2023-29405 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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