CVE-2026-56864 (GCVE-0-2026-56864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 21:58 – Updated: 2026-08-13 21:58
VLAI
Title
Ignore unrelated, unauthenticated hashes in Lookup in golang.org/x/mod/sumdb
Summary
A malicious GOSUMDB was capable of serving arbitrary module content not contained within the transparency log. This attack allows for a coordinating GOPROXY and GOSUMDB to serve a client malicious module content that cannot be detected by evaluating the transparency log. In order to determine if you have been affected: rm -r go.sum go.work.sum vendor/ && go mod tidy
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
Go
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go toolchain cmd/go Affected: 0 , < 1.25.13 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.6 (semver)
Affected: 1.27.0-0 , < 1.27.0-rc.3 (semver)
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golang.org/x/mod golang.org/x/mod/sumdb Affected: 0 , < 0.40.0 (semver)
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Credits
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