Advisory record · GO-2026-4984

Malicious module proxy can bypass checksum database in cmd/go

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0023 · 14th percentile

Published by OSV at 7 May 2026, 19:21 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
toolchainGo<1.25.10 || >=1.26.0-0, <1.26.31.25.10, 1.26.3
Identifiers
GO-2026-4984 · BIT-golang-2026-42501 · CVE-2026-42501
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-347
Published
7 May 2026
Updated
31 Aug 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Go toolchain versions before 1.25.10 and from 1.26.0 up to (but not including) 1.26.3 are affected. An attacker running a malicious module proxy (GOPROXY) can serve altered Go toolchains or modules, and the go command can accept them by bypassing checksum database validation, so users of an untrusted proxy may run attacker-supplied code. Upgrade to Go 1.25.10 or 1.26.3; setting GOTOOLCHAIN to a fixed version is not sufficient.

Written 6 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0023, the 14th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 7 May 2026, 20:16 UTC Confirmed by NVD
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:48 UTC First seen by agentprime
  3. 31 Oct 2026, 14:48 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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