diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/go/go-1.16.7.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/go/go-1.16.7.inc
index bc1cd944496..02a92687790 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/go/go-1.16.7.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/go/go-1.16.7.inc
@@ -18,3 +18,8 @@ SRC_URI += "\
     file://0009-Revert-cmd-go-make-sure-CC-and-CXX-are-absolute.patch \
 "
 SRC_URI[main.sha256sum] = "1a9f2894d3d878729f7045072f30becebe243524cf2fce4e0a7b248b1e0654ac"
+
+# Upstream don't believe it is a signifiant real world issue and will only
+# fix in 1.17 onwards where we can drop this.
+# https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30999#issuecomment-910470358
+CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2021-29923"