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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-06 15:32 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:47
VLAI?
Title
Walk/WalkDir in path/filepath susceptible to symlink race
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.
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
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
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