Vulnerability in Golang Go
CVE-2026-33810
When verifying a certificate chain containing excluded DNS constraints, these constraints are not correctly applied to wildcard DNS SANs which use a different case than the constraint. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.
Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (24.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 24.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Golang Go
- Go Standard Library Crypto/x509 — versions 1.26.0-0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- go.dev/cl/763763 (Patch)
- go.dev/issue/78332 (Issue Tracking)
- groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/0uYbvbPZRWU (Mailing List, Release Notes)
- pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4866 (Vendor Advisory)
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
- 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
- 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
- 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-33810?
- CVE-2026-33810 is a high-severity vulnerability in Golang Go, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2026-04-08.
- How severe is CVE-2026-33810?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.