CVE-2026-58403CWE-59

Hugo symlink confinement bypass in os.ReadFile

Medium · published July 6, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Hugo is a static site generator. From v0.123.0 through v0.163.0, Hugo's virtual filesystem is designed so that files under a mount cannot reach outside the mount tree, but a regression caused RootMappingFs.statRoot to call Stat, which follows symlinks, instead of Lstat, so a direct os.ReadFile "somefile" where somefile was a symlink pointing outside the mount would return the target's contents. This effectively let a symlink planted inside a theme or local mount read arbitrary files reachable to the user running hugo. This issue is fixed in v0.163.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00475 · 40.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Published
2026-07-06T19:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JUL 19:25Z
    Hugo symlink confinement bypass in os.ReadFile
    cvelistv5