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CVE-2025-8959

NVD

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

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

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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.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8959
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wjrx-6529-hcj3
  • https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3892
  • https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-23-hashicorp-go-getter-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-read-through-symlink-attack/76242

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