CVE-2006-4790: gnu gnutls

Modified

AliasesRHSA-2006:0680DSA-1182-1

Published 14-09-2006Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-4790 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in gnu gnutls. EPSS estimates a 2.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority

Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?

CVSS score

5.0/10

010

Medium · v2.0 (NVD)

EPSS score

2.56%

0%100%

Low · +0.05 pp in 30 days

KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.

RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.

Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10801-1

Timeline

14-09-2006
PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
07-08-2024
Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

verify.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.4, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle excess data in the digestAlgorithm.parameters field when generating a hash, which allows remote attackers to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that is signed by that RSA key and prevents GnuTLS from correctly verifying X.509 and other certificates that use PKCS, a variant of CVE-2006-4339.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

v2.05.0

EPSS trend

Probability

2.56%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

85%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.05 pp

From 2.51% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat3 products

gnutls< 0:1.0.20-3.2.3
gnutls-debuginfo< 0:1.0.20-3.2.3
gnutls-devel< 0:1.0.20-3.2.3

Debian1 product

gnutls11< 1.0.16-13.2sarge2

Gnu1 product

gnutls1.0.17 | 1.0.18 | 1.0.19 | 1.0.20 | 1.0.21 | 1.0.22 | 1.0.23 | 1.0.24 | 1.0.25 | 1.1.14 | 1.1.15 | 1.1.16 | 1.1.17 | 1.1.18 | 1.1.19 | 1.1.20 | 1.1.21 | 1.1.22 | 1.1.23 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.6 | 1.2.7 | 1.2.8 | 1.2.8.1a1 | 1.2.9 | 1.2.10 | 1.2.11 | 1.3.0 | 1.3.1 | 1.3.2 | 1.3.3 | 1.3.4 | 1.3.5 | 1.4.0 | 1.4.1

3 vendors · 5 products