CVE-2024-8244 (GCVE-0-2024-8244)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-06 15:32
Modified
2025-11-03 19:47
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VLAI Severity ?
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Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go standard library | path/filepath |
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Sightings
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