CVE-2026-111943 is a vulnerability in Amazon Aws
Published on October 21, 2026
Distrust compromised intermediate certificates in crypto/x509
On most platforms, Go uses the given system root certificates. However, in some narrower cases, the system trust stores may not be updated without further action. To defend against the narrower set of cases that may remain affected, a denylist was added in crypto/x509 to return an error when calling Verify with any of the known intermediate certificates that are no longer considered to be trustworthy.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-111943 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Improper Check for Certificate Revocation
The software does not check or incorrectly checks the revocation status of a certificate, which may cause it to use a certificate that has been compromised. An improper check for certificate revocation is a far more serious flaw than related certificate failures. This is because the use of any revoked certificate is almost certainly malicious. The most common reason for certificate revocation is compromise of the system in question, with the result that no legitimate servers will be using a revoked certificate, unless they are sorely out of sync.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-111943
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Affected Versions
Go standard library crypto/x509:- Before 1.26.10 is affected.
- Version 1.27.0-0 and below 1.27.3 is affected.