This patch cannot be upstreamed in this form. However, the following
issue has been opened to discuss integrating a better solution upstream.

https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/issues/1062

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 10a52fc..7fc019b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-VERSION := $(shell git describe --tags --abbrev=0 | tr -d '[:alpha:]')
-LDFLAGS := "-s -w -X github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/cli/version.version=$(VERSION)"
+LDFLAGS := "-X github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/cli/version.version=$(VERSION)"
 
 export GOFLAGS := -mod=vendor
 export GOPROXY := off