AIKIDO-2026-11034
golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure
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Critical Risk
This Affects:
golang.org/x/cryptoTL;DR
The in-memory keyring returned by NewKeyring() silently accepted keys with the ConfirmBeforeUse constraint but never enforced it. The key would sign without any confirmation prompt, with no indication to the caller that the constraint was not in effect. NewKeyring() now returns an error when unsupported constraints are requested.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and if you use the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent functionalities.
Background info
golang.org/x/crypto is vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure in versions 0.0.0 - 0.51.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the golang.org/x/crypto library to the patch version.
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