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🛡️ CVE-2024-3817 — go-getter

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-88 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

HashiCorp go-getter Vulnerable to Argument Injection When Fetching Remote Default Git Branches

When go-getter is performing a Git operation, go-getter will try to clone the given repository. If a Git reference is not passed along with the Git url, go-getter will then try to check the remote repository’s HEAD reference of its default branch by passing arguments to the Git binary on the host it is executing on.

An attacker may format a Git URL in order to inject additional Git arguments to the Git call.

Consumers of the go-getter library should evaluate the risk associated with these issues in the context of their go-getter usage and upgrade go-getter to 1.7.4 or later.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-3817 is classified as CWE-88: Argument Injection. Input is passed into a command line without separating data from options, letting an attacker introduce extra arguments.

Affected software

CVE-2024-3817 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/hashicorp/go-getter
  • go-getter (from 1.5.9 up to 1.7.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 April 2024 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
discuss.hashicorp.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

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-88: Argument Injection) in other software:

CVE-2024-3817 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-88
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-04-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/go-getter — —
go-getter 1.5.9 1.7.4

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