CVE-2026-111943
On most platforms, Go uses the given system root certificates
- Risk score
- 45/100
- CVSS
- 6.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 21 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- On most platforms, Go uses the given system root certificates. However, in some narrower cases, the system trust stores may not be updated without further action. To defend against the narrower set of cases that may remain affected, a denylist was added in crypto/x509 to return an error when calling Verify with any of…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.8 medium
References
Original description
On most platforms, Go uses the given system root certificates. However, in some narrower cases, the system trust stores may not be updated without further action. To defend against the narrower set of cases that may remain affected, a denylist was added in crypto/x509 to return an error when calling Verify with any of the known intermediate certificates that are no longer considered to be trustworthy.
Last activity 21 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.