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🛡️ CVE-2023-0475 — go-getter

🟡 CVSS 4.2 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-409 NVD
4.2
CVSS Score
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Description

Denial of service in github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/v2

HashiCorp go-getter is vulnerable to decompression bombs. This can lead to excessive memory consumption and denial-of-service attacks.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-0475 is classified as CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification). The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

Affected software

CVE-2023-0475 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • github.com/hashicorp/go-getter
  • github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/v2
  • go-getter

Timeline and source

Published on 17 February 2023 and last revised on 20 May 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

discuss.hashicorp.com (Web)
github.com (Fix)
github.com (Fix)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/hashicorp/go-getter has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)) in other software:

CVE-2023-0475 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 4.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-409
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-05-20

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/go-getter — —
github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/v2 — —
go-getter — —

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