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CVE-2005-1431

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1431 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GnuTLS versions 1.2.x prior to 1.2.3 and 1.0.x prior to 1.0.25, stemming from improper "record packet parsing" likely involving padding bytes. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity by unauthenticated attackers to cause a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion beyond a single mention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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 4Fixed in: gnutls-0:1.0.20-3.2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1431Moderate

gnutls record packet parsing DoS [GNUTLS-SA-2005-1]

Apr 28, 2005

References

lists.gnupg.org / pipermail/gnutls-dev/2005-April/000858.html
secunia.com / advisories/15193
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/20328
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9238
osvdb.org / 16054
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-430.html
securityfocus.com / bid/13477