Improper Check for Certificate Revocation Affecting std/crypto/x509 package, versions <1.26.10>=1.27.0-0 <1.27.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDCRYPTOX509-21400137
  • published21 Oct 2026
  • disclosed20 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-111943  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-299  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/crypto/x509 to version 1.26.10, 1.27.3 or higher.

Overview

std/crypto/x509 is a Go standard library package std/crypto/x509

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Certificate Revocation.

Go Vulnerability Report:

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1