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CVE-2024-8244

LOW CVSS: 3.7 Published: 2025-08-06 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

Unknown

References