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CVE-2026-88922 (GCVE-0-2026-88922)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-15 19:45 – Updated: 2026-09-15 19:45
VLAI
Title
Go-getter vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling
Summary
The go-getter library up to versions 1.8.8 and 2.2.3 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling that may allow a crafted archive to cause extracted files to be created with elevated permission bits. Where extraction is performed by a privileged user, this may allow a local actor to obtain the privileges of the extracting process. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-88922) is fixed in go-getter 1.8.9 and 2.2.4.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HashiCorp Shared library Affected: 1.0.1 , < 2.2.4 (semver)
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Credits
This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Kris Kennaway.
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