Vulnerability Report: GO-2026-6179
- CVE-2026-56865
- Affects: cmd/go, golang.org/x/mod
- Published: Aug 13, 2026
A malicious GOPROXY was previously capable of forging up to two sumdb tiles that allow for a requested module to bypass the GOSUMDB check and persist attacker-controlled module content to a local Go module cache. This attack allows for a malicious GOPROXY to serve malicious module content that cannot be detected by evaluating the transparency log. All tiles are now correctly verified against their parents. In order to determine if you have been affected: rm -r go.sum go.work.sum vendor/ && go mod tidy
Affected Packages
-
PathVersionsSymbols
-
before go1.25.13, from go1.26.0-0 before go1.26.6, from go1.27.0-0 before go1.27.0-rc.3all symbols
-
before v0.40.0all symbols
Aliases
References
- https://go.dev/issue/80744
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/94pEornpRlI
- https://go.dev/cl/814960
- https://go.dev/cl/815020
- https://vuln.go.dev/ID/GO-2026-6179.json
Credits
- Filippo Valsorda (Geomys)
Feedback
See anything missing or incorrect?
Suggest an edit to this report.