{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2025-8959","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.","modified":"2026-09-01T16:06:23.181916945Z","published":"2025-08-15T21:15:37.347Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-8959"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-8959"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"golang-github-hashicorp-go-getter","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-hashicorp-go-getter?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.4.1-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-8959.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}