# CVE-2026-88922: Go-getter vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling

> CVE-2026-88922: Go-getter vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling. CVSS 6.7 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-88922
Last updated: 2026-09-20T01:16:31Z

- Published: 2026-09-15 19:45 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-20 01:16 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 6.7 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.11%, 1th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-281

## Description

The go-getter library up to versions 1.8.8 and 2.2.3 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue in its archive decompression handling that may allow a crafted archive to cause extracted files to be created with elevated permission bits. Where extraction is performed by a privileged user, this may allow a local actor to obtain the privileges of the extracting process. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-88922) is fixed in go-getter 1.8.9 and 2.2.4.

## Affected vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Shared library

## Tracked companies

- [HashiCorp](https://rewindex.com/company/hashicorp.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88922)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88922)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-39-go-getter-vulnerable-to-a-privilege-escalation-issue-in-its-archive-decompression-handling/77752](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-39-go-getter-vulnerable-to-a-privilege-escalation-issue-in-its-archive-decompression-handling/77752)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-88922 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-88922.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-88922 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:01:36.452Z