go1.25.8 (released 2026-03-05) includes security fixes to the html/template,
net/url, and os packages, as well as bug fixes to the go command, the compiler,
and the os package. See the Go 1.25.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
- 1.25.8 https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.25.8+label%3ACherryPickApproved
- diff: https://github.com/golang/go/compare/go1.25.7...go1.25.8
- 1.26.1 https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.26.1+label%3ACherryPickApproved
- diff: https://github.com/golang/go/compare/go1.26.0...go1.26.1
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We have just released Go versions 1.26.1 and 1.25.8, minor point releases.
These releases include 5 security fixes following the security policy:
crypto/x509: incorrect enforcement of email constraints
- When verifying a certificate chain which contains a certificate containing
multiple email address constraints (composed of the full email address) which
share common local portions (the portion of the address before the '@'
character) but different domain portions (the portion of the address after the
'@' character), these constraints will not be properly applied, and only the
last constraint will be considered.
This can allow certificates in the chain containing email addresses which are
either not permitted or excluded by the relevant constraints to be returned by
calls to Certificate.Verify. Since the name constraint checks happen after chain
building is complete, this only applies to certificate chains which chain to
trusted roots (root certificates either in VerifyOptions.Roots or in the system
root certificate pool), requiring a trusted CA to issue certificates containing
either not permitted or excluded email addresses.
This issue only affects Go 1.26.
Thanks to Jakub Ciolek for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2026-27137 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77952.
- crypto/x509: panic in name constraint checking for malformed certificates
Certificate verification can panic when a certificate in the chain has an empty
DNS name and another certificate in the chain has excluded name constraints.
This can crash programs that are either directly verifying X.509 certificate
chains, or those that use TLS.
Since the name constraint checks happen after chain building is complete, this
only applies to certificate chains which chain to trusted roots (root
certificates either in VerifyOptions.Roots or in the system root certificate
pool), requiring a trusted CA to issue certificates containing malformed DNS
names.
This issue only affects Go 1.26.
Thanks to Jakub Ciolek for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2026-27138 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77953.
- html/template: URLs in meta content attribute actions are not escaped
Actions which insert URLs into the content attribute of HTML meta tags are not
escaped. This can allow XSS if the meta tag also has an http-equiv attribute
with the value "refresh".
A new GODEBUG setting has been added, htmlmetacontenturlescape, which can be
used to disable escaping URLs in actions in the meta content attribute which
follow "url=" by setting htmlmetacontenturlescape=0.
This is CVE-2026-27142 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77954.
- net/url: reject IPv6 literal not at start of host
The Go standard library function net/url.Parse insufficiently
validated the host/authority component and accepted some invalid URLs
by effectively treating garbage before an IP-literal as ignorable.
The function should have rejected this as invalid.
To prevent this behavior, net/url.Parse now rejects IPv6 literals
that do not appear at the start of the host subcomponent of a URL.
Thanks to Masaki Hara (https://github.com/qnighy) of Wantedly.
This is CVE-2026-25679 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77578.
- os: FileInfo can escape from a Root
On Unix platforms, when listing the contents of a directory using
File.ReadDir or File.Readdir the returned FileInfo could reference
a file outside of the Root in which the File was opened.
The contents of the FileInfo were populated using the lstat system
call, which takes the path to the file as a parameter. If a component
of the full path of the file described by the FileInfo is replaced with
a symbolic link, the target of the lstat can be directed to another
location on the filesystem.
The impact of this escape is limited to reading metadata provided by
lstat from arbitrary locations on the filesystem. This could be used
to probe for the presence or absence of files as well as gleaning
metadata like file sizes, but does not permit reading or writing files
outside the root.
The FileInfo is now populated using fstatat.
Thank you to Miloslav Trmač of Red Hat for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2026-27139 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77827.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
go1.25.7 (released 2026-02-04) includes security fixes to the go command
and the crypto/tls package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler and the
crypto/x509 package. See the Go 1.25.7 milestone on our issue tracker for
details:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.25.7+label%3ACherryPickApproved
full diff: https://github.com/golang/go/compare/go1.25.6...go1.25.7
From the security mailing list:
> Hello gophers,
>
> We have just released Go versions 1.25.7 and 1.24.13, minor point releases.
>
> These releases include 2 security fixes following the security policy:
>
> - cmd/cgo: remove user-content from doc strings in cgo ASTs
>
> A discrepancy between how Go and C/C++ comments
> were parsed allowed for code smuggling into the
> resulting cgo binary.
>
> To prevent this behavior, the cgo compiler
> will no longer parse user-provided doc
> comments.
>
> Thank you to RyotaK (https://ryotak.net) of
> GMO Flatt Security Inc. for reporting this issue.
>
> This is CVE-2025-61732 and https://go.dev/issue/76697.
>
> - crypto/tls: unexpected session resumption when using Config.GetConfigForClient
>
> Config.GetConfigForClient is documented to use the original Config's session
> ticket keys unless explicitly overridden. This can cause unexpected behavior if
> the returned Config modifies authentication parameters, like ClientCAs: a
> connection initially established with the parent (or a sibling) Config can be
> resumed, bypassing the modified authentication requirements.
>
> If ClientAuth is VerifyClientCertIfGiven or RequireAndVerifyClientCert (on the
> server) or InsecureSkipVerify is false (on the client), crypto/tls now checks
> that the root of the previously-verified chain is still in ClientCAs/RootCAs
> when resuming a connection.
>
> Go 1.26 Release Candidate 2, Go 1.25.6, and Go 1.24.12 had fixed a similar issue
> related to session ticket keys being implicitly shared by Config.Clone. Since
> this fix is broader, the Config.Clone behavior change has been reverted.
>
> Note that VerifyPeerCertificate still behaves as documented: it does not apply
> to resumed connections. Applications that use Config.GetConfigForClient or
> Config.Clone and do not wish to blindly resume connections established with the
> original Config must use VerifyConnection instead (or SetSessionTicketKeys or
> SessionTicketsDisabled).
>
> Thanks to Coia Prant (github.com/rbqvq) for reporting this issue.
>
> This updates CVE-2025-68121 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77217.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
This releases includes 6 security fixes following the security policy:
- archive/zip: denial of service when parsing arbitrary ZIP archives
archive/zip used a super-linear file name indexing algorithm that is invoked the first time a file in an archive is opened. This can lead to a denial of service when consuming a maliciously constructed ZIP archive.
Thanks to Thanks to Jakub Ciolek for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2025-61728 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77102.
- net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseForm
When parsing a URL-encoded form net/http may allocate an unexpected amount of
memory when provided a large number of key-value pairs. This can result in a
denial of service due to memory exhaustion.
Thanks to jub0bs for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2025-61726 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77101.
- crypto/tls: Config.Clone copies automatically generated session ticket keys, session resumption does not account for the expiration of full certificate chain
The Config.Clone methods allows cloning a Config which has already been passed
to a TLS function, allowing it to be mutated and reused.
If Config.SessionTicketKey has not been set, and Config.SetSessionTicketKeys has
not been called, crypto/tls will generate random session ticket keys and
automatically rotate them. Config.Clone would copy these automatically generated
keys into the returned Config, meaning that the two Configs would share session
ticket keys, allowing sessions created using one Config could be used to resume
sessions with the other Config. This can allow clients to resume sessions even
though the Config may be configured such that they should not be able to do so.
Config.Clone no longer copies the automatically generated session ticket keys.
Config.Clone still copies keys which are explicitly provided, either by setting
Config.SessionTicketKey or by calling Config.SetSessionTicketKeys.
This issue was discoverd by the Go Security team while investigating another
issue reported by Coia Prant (github.com/rbqvq).
Additionally, on the server side only the expiration of the leaf certificate, if
one was provided during the initial handshake, was checked when considering if a
session could be resumed. This allowed sessions to be resumed if an intermediate
or root certificate in the chain had expired.
Session resumption now takes into account of the full chain when determining if
the session can be resumed.
Thanks to Coia Prant (github.com/rbqvq) for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2025-68121 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77113.
- cmd/go: bypass of flag sanitization can lead to arbitrary code execution
Usage of 'CgoPkgConfig' allowed execution of the pkg-config
binary with flags that are not explicitly safe-listed.
To prevent this behavior, compiler flags resulting from usage
of 'CgoPkgConfig' are sanitized prior to invoking pkg-config.
Thank you to RyotaK (https://ryotak.net) of GMO Flatt Security Inc.
for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2025-61731 and go.dev/issue/77100.
- cmd/go: unexpected code execution when invoking toolchain
The Go toolchain supports multiple VCS which are used retrieving modules and
embedding build information into binaries.
On systems with Mercurial installed (hg) downloading modules (e.g. via go get or
go mod download) from non-standard sources (e.g. custom domains) can cause
unexpected code execution due to how external VCS commands are constructed.
On systems with Git installed, downloading and building modules with malicious
version strings could allow an attacker to write to arbitrary files on the
system the user has access to. This can only be triggered by explicitly
providing the malicious version strings to the toolchain, and does not affect
usage of @latest or bare module paths.
The toolchain now uses safer VCS options to prevent misinterpretation of
untrusted inputs. In addition, the toolchain now disallows module version
strings prefixed with a "-" or "/" character.
Thanks to splitline (@splitline) from DEVCORE Research Team for reporting this
issue.
This is CVE-2025-68119 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/77099.
- crypto/tls: handshake messages may be processed at the incorrect encryption level
During the TLS 1.3 handshake if multiple messages are sent in records that span
encryption level boundaries (for instance the Client Hello and Encrypted
Extensions messages), the subsequent messages may be processed before the
encryption level changes. This can cause some minor information disclosure if a
network-local attacker can inject messages during the handshake.
Thanks to Coia Prant (github.com/rbqvq) for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2025-61730 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/76443
View the release notes for more information:
https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.25.6
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
- Update Go version to v1.25.5 in build workflow
- Update GO_VERSION to 1.25.5 in Dockerfile
- Update GO_VERSION to 1.25.5
Signed-off-by: Ameya Keskar <55844298+ameya-keskar@users.noreply.github.com>
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