🛡️ CVE-2024-45339 — glog

🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-377 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Vulnerability when creating log files in github.com/golang/glog

When logs are written to a widely-writable directory (the default), an unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink and overwrite that sensitive file. To fix that, glog now causes the program to exit (with status code 2) when it finds that the configured log file already exists.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2024-45339 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/golang/glog
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 28 January 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
groups.google.com (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
owasp.org (Web)
pkg.go.dev (Web)

CVE-2024-45339 on other distributions

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Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-377
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-01-28
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/golang/glog — —
unknown — —

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