CVE-2004-2531

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

X.509 Certificate Signature Verification in Gnu transport layer security library (GnuTLS) 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certificates containing long chains and signed with large RSA keys.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] gnutls: 1.0.16

References

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2004-August/000703.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/12156
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010838
http://www.hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/8278
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10839
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16858
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2004-August/000703.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/12156
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010838
http://www.hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/8278

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