CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-1959
5.8 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/344 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/345 seclists.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2866 www.debian.org
- http://www.gnutls.org/security.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65559 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2121-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1abfe3d182d68539900092eb42fc62cf1bb7e7c Exploit, Patch
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/344 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/345 seclists.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2866 www.debian.org
- http://www.gnutls.org/security.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65559 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2121-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1abfe3d182d68539900092eb42fc62cf1bb7e7c Exploit, Patch