Improper Certificate Validation Affecting gnutls28 package, versions <3.3.8-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.41% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GNUTLS28-517827
  • published 27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 27 Jan 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 gnutls28 to version 3.3.8-6 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:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

GnuTLS before 3.3.13 does not validate that the signature algorithms match when importing a certificate.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

4.3 medium