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CVE-2025-14831

Gnutls: gnutls: denial of service via excessive resource consumption during certificate verification

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS
EPSS 0.67 % · percentile 52 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A flaw was found in GnuTLS. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) by excessive CPU (Central Processing Unit) and memory consumption via specially crafted malicious certificates containing a large number of name constraints and subject alternative names (SANs).

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
gnutlsaffected 0
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10unaffected 0:3.8.10-3.el10_1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:3.8.9-9.el10_0.17 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:3.6.16-8.el8_10.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:3.6.16-8.el8_10.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Supportunaffected 0:3.6.14-10.el8_4.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Supportunaffected 0:4.13-3.el8_4.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-Onunaffected 0:3.6.14-10.el8_4.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-Onunaffected 0:4.13-3.el8_4.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Supportunaffected 0:3.6.16-5.el8_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Supportunaffected 0:4.13-3.el8_6.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-Onunaffected 0:3.6.16-5.el8_6.5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-Onunaffected 0:4.13-3.el8_6.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Serviceunaffected 0:3.6.16-7.el8_8.4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Serviceunaffected 0:4.13-4.el8_8.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 0:3.6.16-7.el8_8.4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 0:4.13-4.el8_8.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:3.8.3-10.el9_7 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:3.8.3-10.el9_7 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 0:3.7.6-21.el9_2.5 < *

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD