CVE-2025-8959

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8959

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

Description

HashiCorp's go-getter library subdirectory download feature is vulnerable to symlink attacks leading to unauthorized read access beyond the designated directory boundaries. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-8959, is fixed in go-getter 1.7.9.

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