Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting std/crypto/tls package, versions <1.25.12>=1.26.0-0 <1.26.5>=1.27.0-0 <1.27.0-rc.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDCRYPTOTLS-17905406
  • published9 Jul 2026
  • disclosed7 Jul 2026
  • creditCoia Prant

Introduced: 7 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-42505  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/crypto/tls to version 1.25.12, 1.26.5, 1.27.0-rc.2 or higher.

Overview

std/crypto/tls is a Go standard library package std/crypto/tls

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information.

Go Vulnerability Report:
Handshakes which used Encrypted Client Hello could be de-anonymized by a passive network observer due to a disclosure of pre-shared key identities in the unencrypted client hello.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1