CVE-2024-28835

MEDIUM 5.0

Gnutls: potential crash during chain building/verification

CVSS Score

5.0

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

A flaw has been discovered in GnuTLS where an application crash can be induced when attempting to verify a specially crafted .pem bundle using the "certtool --verify-chain" command.

CWE	CWE-248
Published	Mar 21, 2024
Last Updated	Jan 21, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

All versions affected

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1879 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2570 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2889 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28835 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269084 lists.gnupg.org: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2024-March/004845.html openwall.com: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/22/1 openwall.com: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/22/2 security.netapp.com: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241122-0009/ lists.debian.org: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00019.html