CVE-2025-61732: Potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-61732 is a high (CVSS 8.6) Improper Control of Generation of Code vulnerability in go toolchain cmd/cgo. EPSS estimates a 0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 8.6, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 34 · Related 34Timeline
- 05-02-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 10-09-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A discrepancy between how Go and C/C++ comments were parsed allowed for code smuggling into the resulting cgo binary.
CVSS metrics
7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.4HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NDiffers
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.6HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated8.6HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated8.6HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST8.6HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated8.6HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.53%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
45%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Decrease -0.01 pp
From 0.54% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard198 products
- aactl< 0.4.12-r40
- actions-runner-controller< 0.13.1-r2
- actions-runner-controller-fips< 0.13.1-r3
- addon-resizer< 1.8.23-r13
- addon-resizer-fips< 1.8.23-r15
Alpine2 products
- etcd< 3.6.8-r0
- go≥ 1.25.0, < 1.25.7-r0
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References
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- pkg.go.devWEB