Access Restriction Bypass Affecting gnutls28 package, versions <3.2.11-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.77% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-GNUTLS28-340739
  • published7 Mar 2014
  • disclosed7 Mar 2014

Introduced: 7 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-1959  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 gnutls28 to version 3.2.11-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls28 package and not the gnutls28 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

lib/x509/verify.c in GnuTLS before 3.1.21 and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates.

CVSS Scores

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