CVE-2009-1417

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

gnutls-cli in GnuTLS before 2.6.6 does not verify the activation and expiration times of X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to successfully present a certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid, related to lack of time checks in the _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls_x509, as used by (a) Exim, (b) OpenLDAP, and (c) libsoup.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] gnutls: through 2.6.5; 1.0.16, 1.0.17, 1.0.18, 1.0.19, 1.0.20, 1.0.21 (+110)

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3517
http://secunia.com/advisories/34842
http://secunia.com/advisories/35211
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-04.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:116
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34783
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022159
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1218
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50261
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3517
http://secunia.com/advisories/34842
http://secunia.com/advisories/35211

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