CVE-2026-42011

high

Description

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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89333

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89232

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89197

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82888

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82857

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82372

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82354

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82347

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82322

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82304

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74674

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72502

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60019

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59831

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58981

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57483

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56853

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43575

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41921

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40762

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33125

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:32962

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30850

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30849

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30004

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29197

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26409

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26319

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20613

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20612

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20611

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13274

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-07

Updated: 2026-11-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00475