TI-2025-00308 Aliases CVE-2025-0377 GHSA-wpfp-cm49-9m9q

HashiCorp go-slug Vulnerable to Zip Slip Attack

MEDIUM 46CWE-59Published 2025-01-21 · Updated 2025-02-12

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

HashiCorp’s go-slug library is vulnerable to a zip-slip style attack when a non-existing user-provided path is extracted from the tar entry.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00677 52nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed Shared library (HashiCorp): 0.16.2github.com/hashicorp/go-slug (Go): 0.16.3

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
HashiCorp	Shared library	before 0.16.2	0.16.2	Patch available	CNA
—	github.com/hashicorp/go-slug (Go)	before 0.16.3	0.16.3	Patch available	GHSA-wpfp-cm49-9m9q

Shared library VendorHashiCorp Affected before 0.16.2 Fixed in 0.16.2 Patch available CNA
github.com/hashicorp/go-slug (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.16.3 Fixed in 0.16.3 Patch available GHSA-wpfp-cm49-9m9q

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:go-slug::::::::	before 0.16.3	Vulnerable	HashiCorp

cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:go-slug:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 0.16.3 Vulnerable ·HashiCorp

Remediation

Fix · CNA Shared library (HashiCorp) Fixed in 0.16.2
Fix · GHSA-wpfp-cm49-9m9q github.com/hashicorp/go-slug (Go) Fixed in 0.16.3 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-0377
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wpfp-cm49-9m9q

References

Advisory 2

TI-2020-17733 HashiCorp go-slug up to 0.4.3 did not fully protect against directory traversal while… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2026-12610 Unicode normalization mismatch in go-slug ignore pattern matching may bypass intended file exclusions CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5

Sources

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