In short
- CVE-2025-68119 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.0) vulnerability affecting toolchain, go (golang).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.38%, higher than 31.5% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 1.25.6, 1.24.12 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| toolchain Go | ≥ 1.25.0, < 1.25.6
| 1.25.6
|
| go | ≥ 1.25.0, < 1.25.6< 1.24.12
| 1.25.61.24.12
|
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.
NVD 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.
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