CVE-2020-26283

Control character injection in console output

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: March 24, 2021 at 08:30 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:07 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsGo IpfsGo Ipfs

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

go-ipfs is an open-source golang implementation of IPFS which is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. In go-ipfs before version 0.8.0, control characters are not escaped from console output. This can result in hiding input from the user which could result in the user taking an unknown, malicious action. This is fixed in version 0.8.0.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.8.0
Affected range stops below 0.8.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.8.0
Affected range stops below 0.8.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-116

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