Vulnerability

CVE-2025-14831

Medium· 5.3CVSS5.3EPSS0%

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A flaw was found in GnuTLS. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) by excessive CPU (Central Processing Unit) and memory consumption via specially crafted malicious certificates containing a large number of name constraints and

Threat signal

53/100

Elevated

Severity

medium

CVSS

5.3

EPSS

Active

CVSS

v3.1via NVDOpen in FIRST calculator →

5.3/ 10MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack VectorNetworkExploitable remotely over the internet — no local access needed.
Attack ComplexityLowNo special conditions — exploit works reliably.
Privileges RequiredNoneUnauthenticated — no credentials needed.
User InteractionNoneFully automated — no victim action needed.
ScopeUnchangedImpact contained to the vulnerable component.
Confidentiality ImpactNoneNo confidentiality impact.
Integrity ImpactNoneNo integrity impact.
Availability ImpactLowReduced performance / interruptions.

EPSS

Exploit prediction · 30-day horizonFIRST.org →

0.10%

probability of exploitation in next 30 days

p28

higher than 28% of all CVEs

3-day trend↑ 0pp

Low exploitation likelihood — defer if no other signals fire.

Vendor VEX

No VEX statements published for CVE-2025-14831. Vendors publish VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) to assert per-product whether a CVE is actually exploitable in their distribution.

SSVCDefer

No exploitation, limited impact or prevalence

exploitation: none
automatable: no
impact: partial
mission: support

Lifecycle

2026-02-09Published
2026-06-10Last modified1 source

References

No source-event history recorded yet. New revisions will appear here as ingestors re-fetch this CVE.