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ubuntu-cve-2026-4660

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-04-09 14:16

Modified

2026-06-30 16:18

Summary

Details

HashiCorp’s go-getter library up to v1.8.5 may allow arbitrary file reads on the file system during certain git operations through a maliciously crafted URL. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-4660, is fixed in go-getter v1.8.6. This vulnerability does not affect the go-getter/v2 branch and package.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

7.5 (High)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-4660	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4660	REPORT
	https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-04-go-…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-4660 (GCVE-0-2026-4660)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-09 13:47 – Updated: 2026-07-15 00:50

Title

Go-getter may allow to arbitrary filesystem reads through git operations

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

HashiCorp

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-04-go-…
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4660	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2456909	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24478	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
HashiCorp	Tooling	Affected: 0 , < 1.8.6 (semver)
Red Hat	Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3	Unaffected: 1780399582 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:trusted_artifact_signer:1.3::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
Red Hat	Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer	cpe:/a:redhat:trusted_artifact_signer:1

Credits

This issue was identified by Nicholas Gould (github.com/gouldnicholas)

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Nomenclature

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2026-4660 (GCVE-0-2026-4660)

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