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CVE-2026-42012NVD
Vulnerability Summary
A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by presenting a specially crafted certificate that contains Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or Service (SRV) Subject Alternative Names (SANs). This could cause the certificate validation process to incorrectly fall back to checking DNS hostnames against the Common Name (CN), potentially allowing the attacker to spoof legitimate services or intercept sensitive information.
CVSS v3.1 Base Metrics
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone
External References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20611
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20612
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20613
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26319
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26409
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29197
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30004
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30849
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30850
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:32962
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33125
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42012
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467441
- https://www.gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2026-04-29-7