Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-1959 First vendor Publication 2014-03-06
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2016-11-28

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

lib/x509/verify.c in GnuTLS before 3.1.21 and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1959

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23693
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23693
Title: DSA-2866-1 gnutls26 - certificate verification flaw
Description: Suman Jana reported that GnuTLS, deviating from the documented behavior, considers a version 1 intermediate certificate as a CA certificate by default.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2866-1
CVE-2014-1959
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
 Product(s): gnutls26
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24385
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24385
Title: USN-2121-1 -- gnutls26 vulnerability
Description: GnuTLS incorrectly validated certain intermediate certificates.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2121-1
CVE-2014-1959
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
 Product(s): gnutls26
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 237

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-072.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-16 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201406-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-05 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_f645aa90a3e811e3a4223c970e169bc2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-26 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2121-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-25 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-2565.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-25 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-2583.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2866.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-2588.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-20 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2014-050-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-043.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-2580.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65559
CONFIRM http://www.gnutls.org/security.html
https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1abfe3d182d68539900092eb42fc6...
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2866
MLIST http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/344
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/345
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2121-1

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2014-03-18 13:24:20
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2014-03-07 17:20:35
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2014-03-07 13:23:18
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