Go PACKAGE

golang.org/x/crypto v0.56.0

Warn

PkgFire would install this release with a warning.·Checked 2 hours ago·Published 2 September 2026

pkg.go.dev

Why

  • warnVulnerability

    The golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp package is unmaintained, unsafe by design, and has known security issues

Licence and upkeep

Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Source
go.googlesource.com/crypto ↗
OpenSSF Scorecard
None published for this repository, which is common for small projects and not the same as scoring badly

What the code does

On its own this is weak signal: plenty of honest libraries read files or talk to the network. What PkgFire watches is a release gaining something the one before it did not.

Source patterns

Patterns found in the source, including those malware is known to use.

  • capability-filesystem-read
  • capability-filesystem-write-executable
  • capability-network-download
  • capability-network-outbound
  • capability-process-spawn
  • threat-filesystem-read
  • threat-runtime-environment-read
  • threat-runtime-obfuscation
  • threat-runtime-obfuscation-unicode

Call graph

What the module's functions can reach.

  • ARBITRARY_EXECUTION
  • EXEC
  • FILES
  • NETWORK
  • OPERATING_SYSTEM
  • READ_SYSTEM_STATE
  • REFLECT
  • RUNTIME
  • SYSTEM_CALLS
  • UNSAFE_POINTER

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