Go-getter vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-88922
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerHashiCorp
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-15 20:19:19 UTC
Updated2026-09-15 20:19:19 UTC
DescriptionThe go-getter library up to versions 1.8.8 and 2.2.3 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling that may allow a crafted archive to cause extracted files to be created with elevated permission bits. Where extraction is performed by a privileged user, this may allow a local actor to obtain the privileges of the extracting process. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-88922) is fixed in go-getter 1.8.9 and 2.2.4.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 6.7 MEDIUM from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-281 | CWE-281 CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary6.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1CNACVSS6.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA HashiCorp Shared Library affected 1.0.1 2.2.4 semver 64 bit, 32 bit, x86, ARM, MacOS, Windows, Linux

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-39-go-getter-vulnerable-to-a-privilege-escalatio... [email protected] discuss.hashicorp.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Kris Kennaway. (en)

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