CVE-2026-88922

6.7 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (6.7). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-281
Published: 2026-09-15
Modified: 2026-09-20
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-39-go-getter-vulnerable-to-a-privilege-escalation-issue-in-its-archive-decompression-handling/77752

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