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CVE-2019-3836

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-3836 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting GnuTLS versions 3.6.3 and later, including various Fedora and openSUSE distributions, stemming from an uninitialized pointer access triggered by specific post-handshake messages. This flaw allows for a complete denial of service (DoS) due to its unauthenticated, low-complexity attack vector. While the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.6.3, < 3.6.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
28CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0340 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnutls-0:3.6.8-8.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-3836Moderate

gnutls: invalid pointer access upon receiving async handshake messages

Mar 27, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3600
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
gitlab.com / gnutls/gnutls/issues/704
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3ETBUFBB4G7AITAOUYPGXVMBGVXKUAN
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201904-14
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20190502-0005
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3999-1