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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Golang
  • Go

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References
Link Providers
https://go.dev/issue/70007 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8244 cve-icon
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-9999 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8244 cve-icon
History

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Golang
Golang go
Vendors & Products Golang
Golang go

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-367
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Moderate

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Walk/WalkDir in path/filepath susceptible to symlink race
References
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published: 2025-08-06T15:32:27.357Z

Updated: 2025-11-03T19:47:26.652Z

Reserved: 2024-08-27T19:41:45.564Z

Link: CVE-2024-8244

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-06T20:27:11.938Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-06T16:15:28.080

Modified: 2025-11-03T20:17:04.933

Link: CVE-2024-8244

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-08-06T15:32:27Z

Links: CVE-2024-8244 - Bugzilla