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CVE-2026-5260

Gnutls: gnutls: information disclosure via heap overread in rsa key exchange

gnutls is listed across many Red Hat products, including RHEL 6 through 10 and OpenShift. CVSS scores it 8.2 (high). The fix is gnutls 3.8.10-4.el9_8.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Unclear
Fix
Fixed in 3.8.10-4.el9_8
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A flaw was found in libgnutls. A remote attacker, by sending an extremely short premaster secret during an RSA key exchange to a server using an RSA key backed by a PKCS#11 token, could trigger a short heap overread. This memory corruption vulnerability could lead to information disclosure.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • gnutls

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  • gnutls

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  • gnutls

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  • libtasn1

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  • libtasn1

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  • gnutls

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  • gnutls

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  • gnutls

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  • openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8

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  • openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9

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  • openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9

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  • cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-acmesolver-rhel9

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  • cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-rhel9

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  • cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-rhel9

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  • cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-bundle

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  • cert-manager/cert-manager-istio-csr-rhel9

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  • discovery/discovery-server-rhel9

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  • gnutls-main

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  • rhai/base-image-neuron-rhel9

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  • rhui5/cds-kubernetes-tp-rhel9

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  • openshift4/ose-hypershift-rhel9

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  • openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9

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References 25

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FAQ

Questions about CVE-2026-5260

What should I do about it?

Update gnutls to the fixed build 3.8.10-4.el9_8 or later, as shipped in gnutls-3.8.10-4.el9_8.src.rpm. The available facts list no workaround.Source: access.redhat.com

Is it being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data