Symlink Attack Affecting std/os package, versions <1.23.10>=1.24.0-0 <1.24.4
Threat Intelligence
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed11 Jun 2025
- creditJunyoung Park, Dong-uk Kim
Introduced: 11 Jun 2025
CVE-2025-0913 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/os to version 1.23.10, 1.24.4 or higher.
Overview
std/os is a Go standard library package std/os
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack.
Go Vulnerability Report:
os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|O_EXCL) behaved differently on Unix and Windows systems when the target path was a dangling symlink. On Unix systems, OpenFile with O_CREATE and O_EXCL flags never follows symlinks. On Windows, when the target path was a symlink to a nonexistent location, OpenFile would create a file in that location. OpenFile now always returns an error when the O_CREATE and O_EXCL flags are both set and the target path is a symlink.