CVE-2026-88922

Go-getter vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling

MEDIUM
6.7
CVSS Score
Published: September 15, 2026 at 07:45 PM UTC
Updated: September 20, 2026 at 01:16 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGo Getter

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Severity
MEDIUM6.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

6.7MEDIUMHashiCorp
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Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-281

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