High severity · published Aug 13, 2026
CVE-2026-56864
Ignore unrelated, unauthenticated hashes in Lookup in golang.org/x/mod/sumdb
7.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 22% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CM
cmd/go · Go toolchain
before 1.25.13; 1.26.0-0 before 1.26.6; 1.27.0-0 before 1.27.0-rc.3 · source: vendor
GO
golang.org/x/mod/sumdb · golang.org/x/mod
before 0.40.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56864
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-56864
go.dev
https://go.dev/cl/815000
go.dev
https://go.dev/cl/815020
go.dev
https://go.dev/issue/80745
groups.google.com
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/94pEornpRlI
pkg.go.dev
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6180
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