VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-1959

medium
Published 2014-03-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.2.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.2.11-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.2.11-1
debian debiansidfixed3.2.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.2.11-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnugnutls{"endIncluding":"3.1.20"}
gnugnutls3.1.0
gnugnutls3.1.1
gnugnutls3.1.2
gnugnutls3.1.3
gnugnutls3.1.4
gnugnutls3.1.5
gnugnutls3.1.6
gnugnutls3.1.7
gnugnutls3.1.8
gnugnutls3.1.9
gnugnutls3.1.10
gnugnutls3.1.11
gnugnutls3.1.12
gnugnutls3.1.13
gnugnutls3.1.14
gnugnutls3.1.15
gnugnutls3.1.16
gnugnutls3.1.17
gnugnutls3.1.18
gnugnutls3.1.19
gnugnutls3.2.0
gnugnutls3.2.1
gnugnutls3.2.2
gnugnutls3.2.3
gnugnutls3.2.4
gnugnutls3.2.5
gnugnutls3.2.6
gnugnutls3.2.7
gnugnutls3.2.8
gnugnutls3.2.8.1
gnugnutls3.2.9

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.