HashiCorp's go-getter library subdirectory download feature is vulnerable to symlink attacks leading to unauthorized read access beyond the designated directory boundaries. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-8959, is fixed in go-getter 1.7.9.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-6ab111452f advisory.

    Update to 1.10.7

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-c555ce4089 advisory.

    Update to 1.10.7

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - HashiCorp's go-getter library subdirectory download feature is vulnerable to symlink attacks leading to     unauthorized read access beyond the designated directory boundaries. This vulnerability, identified as     CVE-2025-8959, is fixed in go-getter 1.7.9. (CVE-2025-8959)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - HashiCorp's go-getter library subdirectory download feature is vulnerable to symlink attacks leading to
    unauthorized read access beyond the designated directory boundaries. This vulnerability, identified as
    CVE-2025-8959, is fixed in go-getter 1.7.9. (CVE-2025-8959)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
275487	Fedora 42 : opentofu (2025-6ab111452f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
275486	Fedora 41 : opentofu (2025-c555ce4089)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
259992	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-8959	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
433378	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/go-getter (GHSA-wjrx-6529-hcj3)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
433378	SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/go-getter (GHSA-wjrx-6529-hcj3)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high

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CVE-2025-8959

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Tenable Plugins

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