CVE-2025-8959
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8959
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8959.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-8959
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2025-08-15T20:32:52.335Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-15T01:49:06.136925652Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- HashiCorp go-getter Vulnerable to Arbitrary Read through Symlink Attack
- Details
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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.
- Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "HashiCorp", "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/8xxx/CVE-2025-8959.json", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-59" ] }- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/hashicorp/go-getter
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
- Database specific
{ "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "1.7.8" }, { "fixed": "1.7.9" } ], "source": [ "AFFECTED_FIELD", "CPE_RANGE" ], "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:go-getter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" }