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OCSP stapling bypass with GnuTLS

Type: advisorySources: OSV

When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as OCSP stapling, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it might fail to detect some OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine. If the returned status reports another error than 'revoked' (like for example 'unauthorized') it is not treated as a bad certficate.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-8096
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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3 Nov 2026, 13:33 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

OCSP stapling bypass with GnuTLS

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Sept 2024, 10:03 UTC

When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as OCSP stapling, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it might fail to detect some OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine. If the returned status reports another error than 'revoked' (like for example 'unauthorized') it is not treated as a bad certficate.

osv:CVE-2024-8096
Complete source record
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