CVE-2025-68119

Published Jan 28, 2026

Last updated 4 months ago

Golang

Overview

AI description

Automated description summarized from trusted sources.

CVE-2025-68119 is a security vulnerability that has been addressed with a fix in the Go programming language. While a detailed public description of the CVE is not yet available, it is known to be a private issue that has prompted backports to Go versions 1.24 and 1.25. Discussions surrounding this vulnerability have been identified by Feedly AI, indicating its presence in security discourse despite the lack of an official public description.

Description: Downloading and building modules with malicious version strings can cause local code execution. On systems with Mercurial (hg) installed, downloading modules from non-standard sources (e.g., custom domains) can cause unexpected code execution due to how external VCS commands are constructed. This issue can also be triggered by providing a malicious version string to the toolchain. On systems with Git installed, downloading and building modules with malicious version strings can allow an attacker to write to arbitrary files on the filesystem. 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.
Source: security@golang.org
NVD status: Analyzed
Products: go

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Secondary
Base score: 7
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 1
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

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      {
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          {
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            "matchCriteriaId": "21FD9368-8AB3-404B-8599-BBF64EFE3C7B",
            "versionEndExcluding": "1.24.12",
            "vulnerable": true
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "matchCriteriaId": "A547E844-78D2-4B17-B7A9-73E7B503D2CE",
            "versionEndExcluding": "1.25.6",
            "versionStartIncluding": "1.25.0",
            "vulnerable": true
          }
        ],
        "negate": false,
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.