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🛡️ GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c — age

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-25 OSV
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Description

age vulnerable to malicious plugin names, recipients, or identities causing arbitrary binary execution

A plugin name containing a path separator may allow an attacker to execute an arbitrary binary.

Such a plugin name can be provided to the age CLI through an attacker-controlled recipient or identity string, or to the [plugin.NewIdentity](https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age/plugin#NewIdentity), [plugin.NewIdentityWithoutData](https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age/plugin#NewIdentityWithoutData), or [plugin.NewRecipient](https://pkg.go.dev/filippo.io/age/plugin#NewRecipient) APIs.

On UNIX systems, a directory matching ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/age-plugin-* needs to exist for the attack to succeed.

The binary is executed with a single flag, either --age-plugin=recipient-v1 or --age-plugin=identity-v1. The standard input includes the recipient or identity string, and the random file key (if encrypting) or the header of the file (if decrypting). The format is constrained by the [age-plugin](https://c2sp.org/age-plugin) protocol.

An equivalent issue was fixed by the [rage](https://github.com/str4d/rage) project, see advisory [GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w](https://github.com/str4d/rage/security/advisories/GHSA-4fg7-vxc8-qx5w).

Thanks to ⬡-49016 for reporting this.

Weakness class

GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c is classified as CWE-25: Path Traversal: '/../filedir'. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "/../" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Affected software

GHSA-32gq-x56h-299c is recorded against 1 package.

  • filippo.io/age

Timeline and source

Published on 18 December 2024 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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Other advisories for this package

filippo.io/age has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-25: Path Traversal: '/../filedir') in other software:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-25
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-12-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
filippo.io/age — —

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