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CVE-2026-95184

GnuTLS v3.8.13 does not properly enforce name constraints, as demonstrated by a permitted subtree violation for "EE O=Evil accepted although outside…

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CVE-2026-95184 · Disputed

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Severity and exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

KEV coverage does not rule out exploitation.

KEV checked 14/11/2026, 21:45:32 UTC
CISA-ADP · CVSS:3.1 · 5.9
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity

medium5.9

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Known exploitation

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Public exploit

Not established by this record

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Remediation

Fix status not established

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What this means

GnuTLS v3.8.13 does not properly enforce name constraints, as demonstrated by a permitted subtree violation for "EE O=Evil accepted although outside permitted O=Good." NOTE: the Supplier does not consider this an actionable security vulnerability because of its "threat model doesn't consider attacks only possible by modifying anything within the trust boundary (private keys, trusted certificate authorities and their issued certificates including intermediate CAs, etc.)" policy.

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Public exploit evidence

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Original source description

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GnuTLS v3.8.13 does not properly enforce name constraints, as demonstrated by a permitted subtree violation for "EE O=Evil accepted although outside permitted O=Good." NOTE: the Supplier does not consider this an actionable security vulnerability because of its "threat model doesn't consider attacks only possible by modifying anything within the trust boundary (private keys, trusted certificate authorities and their issued certificates including intermediate CAs, etc.)" policy.

References

5 sources
gist.github.com/lkloliver/0c8b47fa75a0958fa88587665b82ae15
Source referencemitre
www.gnutls.org/
Source referencemitre
gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/work_items/1965
Source referencemitre
gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/blob/e2169a87c7fb91935c2845088204b102baed4c5f/SECURITY.md
Security advisorymitre
lkloliver/poc · tree/main/CVE-2026-95184
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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-400 ↗

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Contributing organizations · 3
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Assigning organization

2026-11-04
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Additional data publisher

2026-10-19
CVE

Additional data publisher

2026-11-04

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-95184

    Observed 2026-11-04T04:56:08.985Z · upstream updated 2026-11-04T04:53:53.731Z

    References changed

    before

    [
  "https://gist.github.com/lkloliver/0c8b47fa75a0958fa88587665b82ae15",
  "https://www.gnutls.org",
  "https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/work_items/1965",
  "https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/blob/e2169a87c7fb91935c2845088204b102baed4c5f/SECURITY.md"
]

    after

    [
  "https://gist.github.com/lkloliver/0c8b47fa75a0958fa88587665b82ae15",
  "https://www.gnutls.org",
  "https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/work_items/1965",
  "https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/blob/e2169a87c7fb91935c2845088204b102baed4c5f/SECURITY.md",
  "https://github.com/lkloliver/poc/tree/main/CVE-2026-95184"
]

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