Information Exposure Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.8.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.71% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-GNUTLS-10075949
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed21 Mar 2024
  • creditGeorge Pantelakis

Introduced: 21 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-28834  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.8.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure due to the use of the GNUTLS_PRIVKEY_FLAG_REPRODUCIBLE flag. An attacker can exploit deterministic behavior in cryptographic operations to observe a noticeable step in nonce size from 513 to 512 bits, leading to potential timing side-channel information leaks.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1