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A flaw was found in gnutls. The PKCS#7 padding check, performed during decryption, was not constant-time. This timing side-channel could allow a remote attacker to potentially leak sensitive informat…

Low CVSS 3.7
CVECVE-2026-5419
First seen2026-07-15 16:16 UTC
Disclosed2026-06-01 21:16 UTC
Last updated2026-07-15 16:16 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

A flaw was found in gnutls. The PKCS#7 padding check, performed during decryption, was not constant-time. This timing side-channel could allow a remote attacker to potentially leak sensitive information about the padding bytes through observable timing differences. This vulnerability is a form of information disclosure.

In-depth triage · Auto channel

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Lint boundary warnings (1)

The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).

  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://www.gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2026-04-29-13

Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD