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Vulnerable API usage

Reports usages of Vulnerable APIs of imported dependencies.

Fixing the reported problems helps prevent your software from being compromised by an attacker.

To solve a problem, you can update to a version where the vulnerability is fixed (if available) or switch to a dependency that doesn't have the vulnerability.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoVulnerableCodeUsages
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Security

Inspection ID: GoVulnerableCodeUsages

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoVulnerableCodeUsages

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Package Checker, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025