Recommended action

Update golang.org/x/crypto to 0.52.0; golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to 0.52.0 if you use the affected versions. Test the change in a non-production environment first.

hol-guard supply-chain scan

What this means

golang.org/x/crypto/ssh is vulnerable to invoking server panic during CheckHostKey/Authenticate flow affects golang.org/x/crypto (go), golang.org/x/crypto/ssh (go). Severity is medium. SSH servers which use CertChecker as a public key callback without setting IsUserAuthority or IsHostAuthority could be caused to panic by a client presenting a certificate. CertChecker now returns an error instead of panicking when these callbacks are nil.

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in go. A medium vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software

Recommended action

Update golang.org/x/crypto to 0.52.0; golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to 0.52.0 if you use the affected versions. Test the change in a non-production environment first.

hol-guard supply-chain scan

What this means

golang.org/x/crypto/ssh is vulnerable to invoking server panic during CheckHostKey/Authenticate flow affects golang.org/x/crypto (go), golang.org/x/crypto/ssh (go). Severity is medium. SSH servers which use CertChecker as a public key callback without setting IsUserAuthority or IsHostAuthority could be caused to panic by a client presenting a certificate. CertChecker now returns an error instead of panicking when these callbacks are nil.

AI coding agents often install or upgrade packages automatically in go. A medium vulnerability in a dependency can be pulled into a project through a normal install or update without a human reviewing the change, expanding the blast radius from a single package to every agent workspace that depends on it.

Affected software