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.
PUBLISHED5.2
Distrust compromised intermediate certificates in crypto/x509
Problem type
- CWE-299: Improper Check for Certificate Revocation
Affected products
Go standard library
crypto/x509
< 1.26.10 - AFFECTED
< 1.27.3 - AFFECTED
References
go.dev
https://go.dev/cl/851047
go.dev
https://go.dev/issue/82345
groups.google.com
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/66pojueaQek
pkg.go.dev
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-6809
From Hacker News
CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authorityhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-111943
Try this: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-111943
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-111943Click to expand
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