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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467437

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42011

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-07

Updated: 2026-05-14

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: 0.00021