Is there a public exploit for CVE-2026-97042?

No public exploit for CVE-2026-97042 was found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei templates or public proof-of-concept repositories. That is an absence of evidence rather than proof that none exists.

What does CVE-2026-97042 affect?

CVE-2026-97042 affects Go toolchain cmd/link, cmd/cgo, cmd/compile.

— Unscored

Building a malicious package that uses "//go:cgoimportdynamic" or links against a crafted PE object on Windows could pass unsafe library…

CVE-2026-97042

Building a malicious package that uses "//go:cgoimportdynamic" or links against a crafted PE object on Windows could pass unsafe library arguments to the external linker. The compiler only checked the first character of the library name in "//go:cgoimportdynamic" directives and skipped validation in cgo-generated files. In addition, on Windows, "cmd/cgo" and "cmd/link" did not validate imported DLL names extracted from PE object files before emitting "-l " flags for the external linker, allowing a crafted DLL name containing ".." path traversal or special characters to reference arbitrary files on disk. The compiler now validates every character of the library name in "//go:cgoimportdynamic" directives (including in cgo-generated files on Windows) and rejects ".." path traversal, and "cmd/cgo" and "cmd/link" reject PE imported DLL names containing path separators, "..", ":", or leading "-" or "@".

Assessment

CVSS: Not yet scored
Severity: Unscored
Known exploited: Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability: Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published: 11 November 2026
Last updated: 11 November 2026
Affected: Go toolchain · cmd/cgo · cmd/compile · cmd/link
Assigner: Go

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