Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-3832

Redhat Enterprise Linux 10.0 … 9.0

Public PoC
Published
30 April 2026
Modified
13 July 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 3.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0072 50th percentile
Risk Priority 16 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-3832 is a low-severity Incorrect Behavior Order: Early Validation (CWE-179) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 3.7 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Subvert Trust Controls (T1553); ranked in the top 50% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-2 (Flaw Remediation) and IA-5 (Authenticator Management) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by presenting a specially crafted Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) response during a TLS handshake. Due to a logic error in how gnutls processes multi-record OCSP responses,…

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a client with OCSP verification enabled may incorrectly accept a revoked server certificate, potentially leading to a compromise of trust.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1553 Subvert Trust Controls Defense Impairment
Adversaries may undermine security controls that will either warn users of untrusted activity or prevent execution of untrusted programs.
T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to position themselves between two or more networked devices using an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) technique to support follow-on behaviors such as [Network Sniffing](https://attack.
Why these techniques?

Logic error bypasses OCSP revocation checks in TLS, directly enabling subverted certificate trust validation and adversary-in-the-middle attacks using revoked certs.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-3833Same product: Gnu Gnutls
CVE-2026-42010Same product: Gnu Gnutls
CVE-2025-32988Same product: Gnu Gnutls
CVE-2025-32990Same product: Gnu Gnutls
CVE-2026-33845Same product: Gnu Gnutls
CVE-2025-32989Same product: Gnu Gnutls
CVE-2026-6846Same product: Redhat Enterprise Linux
CVE-2026-6844Same product: Redhat Enterprise Linux
CVE-2026-6845Same product: Redhat Enterprise Linux
CVE-2026-1584Same product: Gnu Gnutls

Affected Assets

gnu
gnutls
all versions
redhat
hardened images
all versions
redhat
openshift container platform
4.0
redhat
enterprise linux
10.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-2 Flaw Remediation
  • SC-23 Session Authenticity
  • IA-5 Authenticator Management
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.3.6
  • V1.3.8
  • V2.2.1
  • V3.7.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly requires applying patches to gnutls that correct the OCSP multi-record processing logic error so revoked certificates are no longer accepted.

prevent

Protects authenticity of TLS sessions by ensuring certificate validation (including OCSP revocation status) cannot be bypassed by crafted responses.

prevent

Requires proper management of certificates and revocation checking mechanisms so that OCSP responses are processed correctly before authentication succeeds.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

RS.AN-03 none match
is degraded by

CWE-179 is a coding flaw enabling input-validation bypasses; it neither impairs post-incident forensic/root-cause processes (RS.AN-03) nor is itself mitigated or exposed by those processes.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing can detect early-validation flaws but does not inherently prevent them in design.

prevents

Secure development life cycle mandates validation after canonicalization or sanitization, directly preventing early-validation bypasses.

prevents

Application security requirements include input validation rules that must be applied after protective transformations.

prevents

Secure architecture principles discourage unsafe ordering of validation and sanitization steps.

prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly require canonicalization before validation to avoid CWE-179.

References