CVE-2025-14831

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.06%

gnutls28 - security update

Published: 2/9/2026Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

A flaw was found in GnuTLS. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) by excessive CPU (Central Processing Unit) and memory consumption via specially crafted malicious certificates containing a large number of name constraints and subject alternative names (SANs).

Affected packages (4)

Alpine/gnutlsfrom 0, < 3.8.12-r0
Debian/gnutls28from 0, < 3.7.1-5+deb11u9
Debian/gnutls28from 0, < 3.7.1-5+deb11u9
Debian/gnutls28from 0, < 3.7.9-2+deb12u6

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-14831
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-14831