CVE-2025-61732 (GCVE-0-2025-61732)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-05 03:42 – Updated: 2026-02-05 14:57
VLAI?
Title
Potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo
Summary
A discrepancy between how Go and C/C++ comments were parsed allowed for code smuggling into the resulting cgo binary.
Severity ?
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go toolchain cmd/cgo Affected: 0 , < 1.24.13 (semver)
Affected: 1.25.0-0 , < 1.25.7 (semver)
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Credits
RyotaK (https://ryotak.net) of GMO Flatt Security Inc.
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