Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input Affecting gnutls package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-GNUTLS-16964104
  • published28 May 2026
  • disclosed27 May 2026
  • creditJoshua Rogers

Introduced: 27 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-5260  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1284  (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 Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in the rsa key exchange process when handling an extremely short premaster secret sent to a server using an RSA key backed by a PKCS#11 token. An attacker can access sensitive information and potentially cause memory corruption by sending a specially crafted request.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1