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FKIE_CVE-2025-8959

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-15 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:08
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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
security@hashicorp.comhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-23-hashicorp-go-getter-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-read-through-symlink-attack/76242Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
hashicorp go-getter *
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