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CVE-2004-2531
X.509 Certificate Signature Verification in Gnu transport layer security library (GnuTLS) 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial…
High7.8EPSS 1.7%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
X.509 Certificate Signature Verification in Gnu transport layer security library (GnuTLS) 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certificates containing long chains and signed with large RSA keys.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 1010838 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 8278 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- gnutls-rsa-key-size-dos(16858) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 10839 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [gnutls-dev] 20040802 gnutls 1.0.17 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 12156 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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