High severity · published May 26, 2026
CVE-2026-5260
Gnutls: gnutls: information disclosure via heap overread in rsa key exchange
8.2
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in libgnutls. A remote attacker, by sending an extremely short premaster secret during an RSA key exchange to a server using an RSA key backed by a PKCS#11 token, could trigger a short heap overread. This memory corruption vulnerability could lead to information disclosure.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 55% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CM
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
CM
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
CM
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.20 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Discovery 2 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
Affected product
CM
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17
Red Hat
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5260
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5260
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13274
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20611
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20612
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20613
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26319
vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26409
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