Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-68119: Medium priority package update for amazon-ecr-credential-helper (Multiple Advisories)

Downloading and building modules with malicious version strings can cause local code execution. On systems with Mercurial (hg) installed, downloading modules from non-standard sources (e.g., custom domains) can cause unexpected code execution due to how external VCS commands are constructed. This issue can also be triggered by providing a malicious version string to the toolchain. On systems with Git installed, downloading and building modules with malicious version strings can allow an attacker to write to arbitrary files on the filesystem. This can only be triggered by explicitly providing the malicious version strings to the toolchain and does not affect usage of @latest or bare module paths.
A flaw was found in Golang's cmd/go module. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to achieve local code execution by downloading and building modules with specially crafted malicious version strings. On systems with Mercurial (hg) installed, this can occur when downloading modules from non-standard sources due to how external Version Control System (VCS) commands are constructed. Additionally, on systems with Git installed, providing malicious version strings to the toolchain can enable an attacker to write to arbitrary files on the filesystem. This issue is triggered by explicitly supplying these malicious version strings.