CVE-2024-8244 (GCVE-0-2024-8244)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-06 15:32
Modified
2025-08-06 20:27
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
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.
References
Impacted products
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