Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity Affecting gnutls package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-GNUTLS-15253605
  • published10 Feb 2026
  • disclosed9 Feb 2026
  • creditTim Scheckenbach

Introduced: 9 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-14831  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the certtool --verify command. An attacker can cause excessive CPU and memory consumption by submitting specially crafted certificates containing a large number of SANs and Name Constraints.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1