Timing Attack Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.8.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-17308003
  • published11 Jun 2026
  • disclosed29 Apr 2026
  • creditDoria Tang

Introduced: 29 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-5419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.8.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via the PKCS#7 padding check. An attacker can obtain sensitive information by exploiting timing differences during decryption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1