cmd/go: "go env" output does not sanitize values

[neild]

go env is documented as outputting a shell script containing Go the environment:

$ go help env
By default env prints information as a shell script
(on Windows, a batch file). If one or more variable
names is given as arguments, env prints the value of
each named variable on its own line.

However, go env doesn't sanitize values, so executing its output as a shell script can cause various bad bahaviors, including executing arbitrary commands:

$ CC='$(echo shell expansion 1>&2)' go env | source /dev/stdin
shell expansion

Or inserting new environment variables:

$ CC=$(echo 'cc"'; echo 'OOPS="oops') go env
...
CC="cc"
OOPS="oops"
...

In general, if an attacker can set arbitrary environment variables on a system, they have better attack vectors than making go env print them out, but we still should be sanitizing the output here. Treating this as a PUBLIC track vulnerability because the scenarios where this results in a vulnerability are fairly artificial, and the correct fix is not immediately obvious. (Properly quoting values seems like an obvious fix, but shell quoting is subtle.)

This is CVE-2023-24531.

Thanks to Hunter Wittenborn (https://hunterwittenborn.com/) for reporting this issue.

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/473895 mentions this issue: cmd/go: fix incorrect quoting for values with double quotes

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/488375 mentions this issue: cmd/go: sanitize go env outputs

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/493535 mentions this issue: cmd/go: quote entries in list-valued variables for go env in plan9

[tangxi666]

Hello, may I ask why this CVE is only merged into master and not the old version?