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CVE-2022-29804

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-29804 is a directory traversal vulnerability affecting Go versions prior to 1.17.11 and 1.18.3 on Windows, stemming from incorrect path conversion in the path/filepath Clean function. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to potentially read sensitive information (C:H) without user interaction, though it does not impact integrity or availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.17.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.18.0, < 1.18.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-29804Important

Path traversal via Clean on Windows in path/filepath

Aug 9, 2022

References

go.dev / cl/401595
go.dev / issue/52476
go.googlesource.com / go/+/9cd1818a7d019c02fa4898b3e45a323e35033290
groups.google.com / g/golang-announce/c/TzIC9-t8Ytg/m/IWz5T6x7AAAJ
pkg.go.dev / vuln/GO-2022-0533