CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-8959

7.5 HIGH Published 2025-08-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-08-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• hashicorp go-getter (< 1.7.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References