CVE-2019-14809
net/url in Go before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.8 mishandles malformed hosts in URLs, leading to an authorization bypass in some applications.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.36%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
net/url in Go before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.8 mishandles malformed hosts in URLs, leading to an authorization bypass in some applications. This is related to a Host field with a suffix appearing in neither Hostname() nor Port(), and is related to a non-numeric port number. For example, an attacker can compose a crafted javascript:// URL that results in a hostname of google.com.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 8.36% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- golang/go · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 8.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00076.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00038.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3433
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29098Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/0uuMm1BwpHE
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/65QixT3tcmg
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BBP27PZGSY6OP6D26E5FW4GZKBFHNU7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYO6E3H34C346D2E443GLXK7OK6KIYIQ/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/31Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4503Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00076.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00038.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3433
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29098Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/0uuMm1BwpHE
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/65QixT3tcmg
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BBP27PZGSY6OP6D26E5FW4GZKBFHNU7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYO6E3H34C346D2E443GLXK7OK6KIYIQ/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/31Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4503Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.