CVE-2025-8959
HashiCorp go-getter Vulnerable to Arbitrary Read through Symlink Attack
Summary
HashiCorp go-getter Vulnerable to Arbitrary Read through Symlink Attack
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-8959 grype Fixed in: 0.114.0-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-8959 golang-github-hashicorp-go-getter
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web discuss.hashicorp.com