HashiCorp Shared library up to 1.7.2 argument injection

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A vulnerability has been found in HashiCorp Shared library up to 1.7.2 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in argument injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-3817. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in HashiCorp Shared library up to 1.7.2. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a argument injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at discuss.hashicorp.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-3817 since 04/15/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 215185 (openSUSE 15 Security Update : trivy (openSUSE-SU-2025:0056-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.7.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (215185). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Software Library

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• HashiCorp

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• Shared library

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• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2

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• open-source

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