Information Exposure Affecting gnutls28 package, versions <3.8.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.83% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-GNUTLS28-11744537
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed28 Nov 2023

Introduced: 28 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-5981  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 gnutls28 to version 3.8.2-1 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:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was found that the response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1