Description

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-28835

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.0

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

Affected Products

Vendor: , Red Hat

Product: , Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 0.95% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-19 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28835
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1879
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2570
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2889
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28835
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269084
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2024-March/004845.html

Timeline