diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index a00093c80d93..4fab014d4758 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 linters:
   enable:
     - bodyclose
+    - copyloopvar   # Detects places where loop variables are copied.
     - depguard
     - dogsled
     - dupword       # Detects duplicate words.
     - durationcheck
     - errchkjson
-    - exportloopref # Detects pointers to enclosing loop variables.
     - gocritic      # Metalinter; detects bugs, performance, and styling issues.
     - gocyclo
     - gofumpt       # Detects whether code was gofumpt-ed.
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ linters-settings:
             desc: The io/ioutil package has been deprecated, see https://go.dev/doc/go1.16#ioutil
   gocyclo:
     min-complexity: 16
+  gosec:
+    excludes:
+      - G104 # G104: Errors unhandled; (TODO: reduce unhandled errors, or explicitly ignore)
+      - G113 # G113: Potential uncontrolled memory consumption in Rat.SetString (CVE-2022-23772); (only affects go < 1.16.14. and go < 1.17.7)
+      - G115 # G115: integer overflow conversion; (TODO: verify these: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/5584)
+      - G306 # G306: Expect WriteFile permissions to be 0600 or less (too restrictive; also flags "0o644" permissions)
+      - G307 # G307: Deferring unsafe method "*os.File" on type "Close" (also EXC0008); (TODO: evaluate these and fix where needed: G307: Deferring unsafe method "*os.File" on type "Close")
   govet:
     enable:
       - shadow
@@ -89,6 +96,10 @@ issues:
   # The default exclusion rules are a bit too permissive, so copying the relevant ones below
   exclude-use-default: false
 
+  # This option has been defined when Go modules was not existed and when the
+  # golangci-lint core was different, this is not something we still recommend.
+  exclude-dirs-use-default: false
+
   exclude:
     - parameter .* always receives
 
@@ -106,6 +117,9 @@ issues:
     #
     # These exclusion patterns are copied from the default excluses at:
     # https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/blob/v1.44.0/pkg/config/issues.go#L10-L104
+    #
+    # The default list of exclusions can be found at:
+    # https://golangci-lint.run/usage/false-positives/#default-exclusions
 
     # EXC0001
     - text: "Error return value of .((os\\.)?std(out|err)\\..*|.*Close|.*Flush|os\\.Remove(All)?|.*print(f|ln)?|os\\.(Un)?Setenv). is not checked"
@@ -123,11 +137,6 @@ issues:
     - text: "Subprocess launch(ed with variable|ing should be audited)"
       linters:
         - gosec
-    # EXC0008
-    # TODO: evaluate these and fix where needed: G307: Deferring unsafe method "*os.File" on type "Close" (gosec)
-    - text: "G307"
-      linters:
-        - gosec
     # EXC0009
     - text: "(Expect directory permissions to be 0750 or less|Expect file permissions to be 0600 or less)"
       linters:
@@ -137,26 +146,6 @@ issues:
       linters:
         - gosec
 
-    # G113 Potential uncontrolled memory consumption in Rat.SetString (CVE-2022-23772)
-    # only affects gp < 1.16.14. and go < 1.17.7
-    - text: "G113"
-      linters:
-        - gosec
-    # TODO: G104: Errors unhandled. (gosec)
-    - text: "G104"
-      linters:
-        - gosec
-    # Looks like the match in "EXC0007" above doesn't catch this one
-    # TODO: consider upstreaming this to golangci-lint's default exclusion rules
-    - text: "G204: Subprocess launched with a potential tainted input or cmd arguments"
-      linters:
-        - gosec
-    # Looks like the match in "EXC0009" above doesn't catch this one
-    # TODO: consider upstreaming this to golangci-lint's default exclusion rules
-    - text: "G306: Expect WriteFile permissions to be 0600 or less"
-      linters:
-        - gosec
-
     # TODO: make sure all packages have a description. Currently, there's 67 packages without.
     - text: "package-comments: should have a package comment"
       linters:
diff --git a/cli-plugins/manager/candidate.go b/cli-plugins/manager/candidate.go
index 83e5a05256b1..e65ac1a54f37 100644
--- a/cli-plugins/manager/candidate.go
+++ b/cli-plugins/manager/candidate.go
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ func (c *candidate) Path() string {
 }
 
 func (c *candidate) Metadata() ([]byte, error) {
-	return exec.Command(c.path, MetadataSubcommandName).Output()
+	return exec.Command(c.path, MetadataSubcommandName).Output() // #nosec G204 -- ignore "Subprocess launched with a potential tainted input or cmd arguments"
 }
diff --git a/cli-plugins/manager/manager.go b/cli-plugins/manager/manager.go
index 9886830240bd..f9229c52576c 100644
--- a/cli-plugins/manager/manager.go
+++ b/cli-plugins/manager/manager.go
@@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ func PluginRunCommand(dockerCli command.Cli, name string, rootcmd *cobra.Command
 			// TODO: why are we not returning plugin.Err?
 			return nil, errPluginNotFound(name)
 		}
-		cmd := exec.Command(plugin.Path, args...)
+		cmd := exec.Command(plugin.Path, args...) // #nosec G204 -- ignore "Subprocess launched with a potential tainted input or cmd arguments"
+
 		// Using dockerCli.{In,Out,Err}() here results in a hang until something is input.
 		// See: - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10338
 		//      - https://github.com/golang/go/commit/d000e8742a173aa0659584aa01b7ba2834ba28ab
diff --git a/cli-plugins/manager/plugin.go b/cli-plugins/manager/plugin.go
index 877241e0b828..5576ef4301ca 100644
--- a/cli-plugins/manager/plugin.go
+++ b/cli-plugins/manager/plugin.go
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func (p *Plugin) RunHook(ctx context.Context, hookData HookPluginData) ([]byte,
 		return nil, wrapAsPluginError(err, "failed to marshall hook data")
 	}
 
-	pCmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, p.Path, p.Name, HookSubcommandName, string(hDataBytes))
+	pCmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, p.Path, p.Name, HookSubcommandName, string(hDataBytes)) // #nosec G204 -- ignore "Subprocess launched with a potential tainted input or cmd arguments"
 	pCmd.Env = os.Environ()
 	pCmd.Env = append(pCmd.Env, ReexecEnvvar+"="+os.Args[0])
 	hookCmdOutput, err := pCmd.Output()
diff --git a/cli/required.go b/cli/required.go
index bad16248565c..e8edcaafac2b 100644
--- a/cli/required.go
+++ b/cli/required.go
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ func NoArgs(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 	}
 
 	if cmd.HasSubCommands() {
-		return errors.Errorf("\n" + strings.TrimRight(cmd.UsageString(), "\n"))
+		return errors.New("\n" + strings.TrimRight(cmd.UsageString(), "\n"))
 	}
 
 	return errors.Errorf(
diff --git a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.lint b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.lint
index 05d9fca5769f..00a851ec231d 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.lint
+++ b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.lint
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ARG GO_VERSION=1.22.9
 ARG ALPINE_VERSION=3.20
-ARG GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION=v1.59.1
+ARG GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION=v1.61.0
 
 FROM golangci/golangci-lint:${GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION}-alpine AS golangci-lint