# CVE-2026-50135: Hugo: Symlink confinement bypass in resources.Get

- Also known as: GO-2026-5380, GHSA-FW87-FV5R-9FPW
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.162.0
- Published: 2026-07-06 · Updated: 2026-07-07

## Affected

- gohugoio hugo: from 0.123.0, fixed in 0.162.0
- github.com/gohugoio/hugo (Go): from 0.123.0, fixed in 0.162.0

## Description

Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.123.0 to 0.161.1, a regression made RootMappingFs.statRoot use Stat (follows symlinks) instead of Lstat , so a direct resources.Get of a symlink pointing outside its mount returned the target's contents — letting a symlink planted in a local mount (e.g. a vendored themes/ theme) read arbitrary files accessible to the Hugo user. Go-module themes from GitHub (symlinks stripped) and directory walks were unaffected. Fixed in 0.162.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gohugoio hugo, github.com/gohugoio/hugo, upgrade to a fixed version (0.162.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisories/GHSA-fw87-fv5r-9fpw
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/f8b5fa09a64950c32b803821ede411ebfe772b7a
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.162.0

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