CVE-2024-3817

Publication date 17 April 2024

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

HashiCorp’s go-getter library is vulnerable to argument injection when executing Git to discover remote branches. This vulnerability does not affect the go-getter/v2 branch and package.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
golang-github-jesseduffield-go-getter	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
golang-github-hashicorp-go-getter	25.10 questing	Vulnerable
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable

Notes

allenpthuang

upstream says affected versions are >=1.5.9, but affected code seems to be there in 1.4.1 and below. `golang-github-jesseduffield-go-getter` is a fork at 906e156.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H