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CVE-2016-3958

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, related to use of the LoadLibrary function.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Golang — GO

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