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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.2

CVE-2023-0475 json

Go-Getter Vulnerable to Decompression Bombs

published 2023-02-16 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jpxj-2jvg-6jv9 , GO-2023-1578 , EUVD-2023-0733

cvss
4.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp go-getter up to 1.6.2 and 2.1.1 is vulnerable to decompression bombs. Fixed in 1.7.0 and 2.2.0.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/go-getter 1.7.0
  • go github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/v2 2.2.0
  • golang-github-hashicorp-go-getter Debian 14 1.8.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0475

  • packer CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.8.7-1
  • terraform CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.3.2-22

azure linux advisories AZL-13586AZL-13606

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-0475 updated cvss 4.2

go-getter: go-getter vulnerable to denial of service via malicious compressed archive

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift-security-profiles-operator-container
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 openshift4/ose-installer v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g03546e5.assembly.stream
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:5006
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 rhcos 414.92.202310210434-0, openshift4/ose-cli v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g0c63f9d.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-pod v4.14.0-202310210404.p0.gf67aeb3.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-tests v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g948001a.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-console v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.gc16ab01.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-coredns v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.gfd70cf1.assembly.stream, +180 more Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/odr-rhel9-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/go-getter
<1.7.0
1.7.0
go github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/v2
>=2.0.0, <2.2.0
2.2.0

Affected products

  • HashiCorp go-getter

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

References

Sources

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