Gnutls: vulnerability in gnutls sct extension parsing
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 1.3%
exploitation probability
1.3%top 31% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A heap-buffer-overread vulnerability was found in GnuTLS in how it handles the Certificate Transparency (CT) Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT) extension during X.509 certificate parsing. This flaw allows a malicious user to create a certificate containing a malformed SCT extension (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.2) that contains sensitive data. This issue leads to the exposure of confidential information when GnuTLS verifies certificates from certain websites when the certificate (SCT) is not checked correctly.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected products
libgnutlsRed Hat · Red Hat Ceph Storage 7Red Hat · Red Hat Discovery 2Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Hardened ImagesRed Hat · Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16115https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16116https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17181https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17348https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17361https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19088https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22529https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7477https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-32989https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359621https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.htmlhttps://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2025-July/004883.html