CVE-2026-56865 PUBLISHED

Fix transparency log tile verification bypass in golang.org/x/mod/sumdb/tlog

Assigner: Go
Reserved: 23.06.2026 Published: 13.08.2026 Updated: 14.08.2026

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

Product Status

Vendor Go toolchain
Product cmd/go
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.25.13 (excl.)
  • affected from 1.26.0-0 to 1.26.6 (excl.)
  • affected from 1.27.0-0 to 1.27.0-rc.3 (excl.)
Vendor golang.org/x/mod
Product golang.org/x/mod/sumdb/tlog
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.40.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Filippo Valsorda (Geomys)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature