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GHSA-V9VR-W93G-QPH7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-06 18:31 – Updated: 2025-08-06 21:31

Details

The filepath.Walk and filepath.WalkDir functions are documented as not following symbolic links, but both functions are susceptible to a TOCTOU (time of check/time of use) race condition where a portion of the path being walked is replaced with a symbolic link while the walk is in progress.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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  "modified": "2025-08-06T21:31:39Z",
  "published": "2025-08-06T18:31:20Z",
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CVE-2024-8244 (GCVE-0-2024-8244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-06 15:32 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:47

Title

Walk/WalkDir in path/filepath susceptible to symlink race

Summary

Severity

3.7 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-11-03 19:47 UTC

CWE

CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Assigner

Go Google root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://go.dev/issue/70007
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-9999

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Go standard library	path/filepath

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