CVE-2014-1959 (GCVE-0-2014-1959)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-06 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.gnutls.org/security.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/344 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/345 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65559 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2121-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2866 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
Date Public
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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