github - ghsa-v9vr-w93g-qph7

ghsa-v9vr-w93g-qph7

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-06 18:31

Modified

2025-08-06 21:31

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

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CVE-2024-8244 (GCVE-0-2024-8244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-06 15:32

Modified

2025-11-03 19:47

Severity ?

3.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

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

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

URL

Tags

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Go standard library	path/filepath

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