CVE-2024-0567

Gnutls: rejects certificate chain with distributed trust

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 16, 2024 at 02:01 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 01:17 AM UTC
6 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraActive IQ Unified Manager

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
PoC

Description

A vulnerability was found in GnuTLS, where a cockpit (which uses gnuTLS) rejects a certificate chain with distributed trust. This issue occurs when validating a certificate chain with cockpit-certificate-ensure. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote client or attacker to initiate a denial of service attack.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

3.7.0 ≤ v < 3.8.3
Affected range stops below 3.8.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versions
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:3.7.6-21.el9_2.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:3.7.6-23.el9_3.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6 (unknown)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7 (unknown)
All versions
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.11 (unaffected)

References (13)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0533
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1082
VDB Entryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0567
Issue Trackingx_refsource_REDHATExploitThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258544
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1521

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SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.5HIGHredhat
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-347

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