CVE-2014-1959 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2014-1959 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.23% · 45.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.23%

45.6th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	gnutls26	0, 2.12.23-1ubuntu4, 2.12.23-1ubuntu5

Timeline

Feb 21, 2014 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 19, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 10, 2022 EPSS Score
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Dec 14, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2023 EPSS Score
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Jul 10, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1959 third-party-advisory
https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1abfe3d18 third-party-advisory
http://gnutls.org/security.html third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2121-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1959 third-party-advisory

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