CVE-2025-8959

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

<1%p44

Published

Aug 15, 2025 (Aug 15, 2025)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: hashicorp
Products: go-getter
Weakness: CWE-59
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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