Vulnerability in GnuTLS (CVE-2025-32988)
Summary
Vulnerability in GnuTLS (CVE-2025-32988). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A flaw was found in GnuTLS. A double-free vulnerability exists in GnuTLS due to incorrect ownership handling in the export logic of Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries containing an otherName. If the type-id OID is invalid or malformed, GnuTLS will call asn1_delete_structure() on an ASN.1 node it does not own, leading to a double-free condition when the parent function or caller later attempts to free the same structure.
This vulnerability can be triggered using only public GnuTLS APIs and may result in denial of service or memory corruption, depending on allocator behavior.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-32988 has been found in GnuTLS.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "GnuTLS CVE-2025-32988" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-32988 (GnuTLS) — CWE-415 / CVSS v3 6.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-415) exists in GnuTLS.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of GnuTLS.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'GnuTLS' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'GnuTLS' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
GnuTLSを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2025-32988 gnutls Fixed in: 3.8.12-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-32988 gnutls28 Fixed in: 3.7.1-5+deb11u8
References
- issue secalert@redhat.com
- patch secalert@redhat.com
- web secalert@redhat.com
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- web secalert@redhat.com
- web secalert@redhat.com
- web secalert@redhat.com
- web openwall.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com