# CVE-2022-2509: A vulnerability found in gnutls.

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-08-01 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

- n/a GnuTLS: gnutls 3.7.7(Fixed)

## Description

A vulnerability found in gnutls. This security flaw happens because of a double free error occurs during verification of pkcs7 signatures in gnutls_pkcs7_verify function.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a GnuTLS, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2509
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2022-July/004746.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5203
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00002.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6FL27JS3VM74YEQU7PGB62USO3KSBYZX/

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