CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-26284

8.5 HIGH Published 2020-12-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-78

Description

Hugo is a fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built in Go. Hugo depends on Go's `os/exec` for certain features, e.g. for rendering of Pandoc documents if these binaries are found in the system `%PATH%` on Windows. In Hugo before version 0.79.1, if a malicious file with the same name (`exe` or `bat`) is found in the current working directory at the time of running `hugo`, the malicious command will be invoked instead of the system one. Windows users who run `hugo` inside untrusted Hugo sites are affected. Users should upgrade to Hugo v0.79.1. Other than avoiding untrusted Hugo sites, there is no workaround.

Affected configurations

• gohugo hugo (< 0.79.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References