Low severity3.7NVD Advisory· Published Aug 6, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-8244
CVE-2024-8244
Description
The filepath.Walk and filepath.WalkDir functions are documented as not following symbolic links, but both functions are susceptible to a TOCTOU (time of check/time of use) race condition where a portion of the path being walked is replaced with a symbolic link while the walk is in progress.
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