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CVE-2014-8155

GnuTLS before 2.9.10 does not verify the activation and expiration dates of CA certificates,...

4.3 Medium

GnuTLS before 2.9.10 does not verify the activation and expiration dates of CA certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a certificate issued by a CA certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid.

Exploit likelihood

1.05%Unchanged since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.3

GnuTLS before 2.9.10 does not verify the activation and expiration dates of CA certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a certificate issued by a CA certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid.

Record
CVE-2014-8155
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness
CWE-17
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

GnuTLS before 2.9.10 does not verify the activation and expiration dates of CA certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a certificate issued by a CA certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid.

Record
CVE-2014-8155
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-7996 No score

GnuTLS before 2.9.10 does not verify the activation and expiration dates of CA certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a certificate issued by a CA certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid.

Record
EUVD-2014-7996
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q3j8-fx5r-2c6f No score

GnuTLS before 2.9.10 does not verify the activation and expiration dates of CA certificates,...

GnuTLS before 2.9.10 does not verify the activation and expiration dates of CA certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a certificate issued by a CA certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid.

Record
GHSA-q3j8-fx5r-2c6f
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:0675-1 No score

Security update for gnutls

GnuTLS has been patched to ensure proper parsing of session ids during the TLS/SSL handshake. Additionally, three issues inherited from libtasn1 have been fixed.

Further information is available at http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2014-3 http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2014-3

These security issues have been fixed:

* Possible memory corruption during connect (CVE-2014-3466)
* Multiple boundary check issues could allow DoS (CVE-2014-3467)
* asn1_get_bit_der() can return negative bit length (CVE-2014-3468)
* Possible DoS by NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2014-3469)

Security Issue references:

* CVE-2014-3466
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3466>
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:0675-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
gnutls26
Debian:6.0
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 2.8.6-1+squeeze5, plus listed versions
2.8.6-12.8.6-1+squeeze12.8.6-1+squeeze22.8.6-1+squeeze32.8.6-1+squeeze4
2.8.6-1+squeeze5
gnutls-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-guile
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-guile
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
gnutls-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-guile
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-guile
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6
gnutls-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.8.5-18.el6
0:2.8.5-18.el6

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2014-8155 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Gnu Gnutls, published June 3, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.05%, the 64th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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