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Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published May 7, 2026 13:51:04 UTC

CVE-2026-42011

A flaw was found in gnutls. This vulnerability occurs because permitted name constraints were incorrectly ignored when previous Certificate Authorities (CAs) only had excluded name constraints. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass critical name constraint checks during certificate validation. This bypass could lead to the acceptance of invalid certificates, potentially enabling spoofing or man-in-the-middle attacks against affected systems.

Base score7.4/ 10
SeverityHighCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes
Base severityHigh
Attack vectorNetworkAV
Attack complexityHighAC
Privileges requiredNonePR
User interactionNoneUI
ScopeUnchangedS
Confidentiality impactHighC
Integrity impactHighI
Availability impactNoneA
CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Record context

CVE Numbering Authorityredhat
Last updatedOct 30, 2026 07:29:46 UTC
PublishedMay 7, 2026 13:51:04 UTC
ReservedApr 23, 2026 11:23:46 UTC

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Haruto Kimura (Stella) for reporting this issue.