CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-1959

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2014-03-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-03-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu gnutls (<= 3.1.20) • gnu gnutls 3.1.0 • gnu gnutls 3.1.1 • gnu gnutls 3.1.2 • gnu gnutls 3.1.3 • gnu gnutls 3.1.4 • gnu gnutls 3.1.5 • gnu gnutls 3.1.6 • gnu gnutls 3.1.7 • gnu gnutls 3.1.8 • gnu gnutls 3.1.9 • gnu gnutls 3.1.10 • gnu gnutls 3.1.11 • gnu gnutls 3.1.12 • gnu gnutls 3.1.13 • gnu gnutls 3.1.14 • gnu gnutls 3.1.15 • gnu gnutls 3.1.16 • gnu gnutls 3.1.17 • gnu gnutls 3.1.18 • gnu gnutls 3.1.19 • gnu gnutls (<= 3.2.10) • gnu gnutls 3.2.0 • gnu gnutls 3.2.1 • gnu gnutls 3.2.2 • gnu gnutls 3.2.3 • gnu gnutls 3.2.4 • gnu gnutls 3.2.5 • gnu gnutls 3.2.6 • gnu gnutls 3.2.7 • gnu gnutls 3.2.8 • gnu gnutls 3.2.8.1 • gnu gnutls 3.2.9

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References