CVE-2025-8959

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8959
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8959.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-8959
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-08-15T20:32:52.335Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:57:38.353160288Z
Severity
  • 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

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 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "HashiCorp",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/8xxx/CVE-2025-8959.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/hashicorp/go-getter

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
f7836fb97529673f24dac0aaa140762ee05c847f

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.0.3
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.4.2
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.5.10
v1.5.11
v1.5.2
v1.5.3
v1.5.4
v1.5.5
v1.5.6
v1.5.7
v1.5.8
v1.5.9
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.7.0
v1.7.1
v1.7.2
v1.7.3
v1.7.4
v1.7.5
v1.7.6
v1.7.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8959.json"