CVE-2025-8959highCWE-59

CVE-2025-8959: high-severity vulnerability in HashiCorp Shared library

HashiCorp go-getter Vulnerable to Arbitrary Read through Symlink Attack

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.6%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
HashiCorp · Shared library
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