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CVE-2024-8244

Walk/WalkDir in path/filepath susceptible to symlink race PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Go standard library / path/filepathaffected

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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