CVE-2024-8244

3.7 lowEPSS 0.2%

Low (3.7). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

CVSS 3.1

3.7 low

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2025-08-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

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

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