Improper Certificate Validation Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.8.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-10735667
  • published14 Jul 2025
  • disclosed10 Jul 2025
  • creditOpenAI Security Research Team

Introduced: 10 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-32989  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.8.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation in the SCT extension parsing process. An attacker can access confidential information by providing a specially crafted certificate containing a malformed SCT extension during X.509 certificate verification.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1