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
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Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-200

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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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
Title Ignore unrelated, unauthenticated hashes in Lookup in golang.org/x/mod/sumdb
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T21:58:53.605Z

Reserved: 2026-06-23T15:10:49.354Z

Link: CVE-2026-56864

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T22:17:22.677

Modified: 2026-08-13T22:17:22.677

Link: CVE-2026-56864

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-14T00:45:17Z

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