GNU Gatekeeper before 3.1 does not limit the number of connections to the status port, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…

Description

GNU Gatekeeper before 3.1 does not limit the number of connections to the status port, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection and thread consumption) via a large number of connections.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.9% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• [oss-security] 20120825 Re: information request on security bug fix in GNU Gatekeeper 3.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• gatekeeper-unspec-code-exec(77975) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20120826 Re: Re: information request on security bug fix in GNU Gatekeeper 3.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 55198 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 50343 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.gnugk.org/gnugk-3.1.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20120824 information request on security bug fix in GNU Gatekeeper 3.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 84862 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2016:1856 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 20:13 UTC.