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The golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp package is unmaintained, unsafe by design, and has known security issues

Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
Published
Last modified
15/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp Go package, which provides OpenPGP encryption and signing functionality, is no longer maintained and has design flaws and numerous known security issues. Applications that use it may be exposed to weaknesses in the protection of encrypted and signed data.

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The golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp package is unsafe by design, has numerous known security issues, is not maintained, and should not be used.

If you are required to interoperate with OpenPGP systems and need a maintained package, consider github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto/openpgp which is a maintained fork that aims to be a drop-in replacement for this package.

cve.now Index

15Pcve.now Index 15 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
  • Exposure?/25Unknown. No advisory context yet
  • Reach10/20Affects Go packages
  • Severity?/10Unknown. No CVSS score or vendor rating
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 70 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 65 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 37 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

Timeline

  1. Advisory published3 days
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • golang.org/x/cryptoGo

    All versions

Evidence 1

  1. Report

Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about GO-2026-5932

Is GO-2026-5932 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by GO-2026-5932?

golang.org/x/crypto (Go): all versions.Source: cve.now feed data