Medium 5.5Published Jul 6, 2026

CVE-2026-50135Hugo is a static site generator.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 10:20 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

gohugo hugo gohugo:hugo	from 0.123.0 before 0.161.1	NVD

References

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/f8b5fa09a64950c32b803821ede411ebfe772b7apatch
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.162.0product, release-notes
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisories/GHSA-fw87-fv5r-9fpwpatch, vendor-advisory

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