6.5 MEDIUM
- CVSS version: 3.1
- Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
- Attack complexity (AC): LOW
- Privileges required (PR): NONE
- User interaction (UI): NONE
- Scope (S): UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact (C): LOW
- Integrity impact (I): LOW
- Availability impact (A): NONE
uTLS ServerHellos are accepted without checking TLS 1.3 downgrade canaries
uTLS is a fork of crypto/tls, created to customize ClientHello for fingerprinting resistance while still using it for the handshake. In versions 1.6.7 and below, uTLS did not implement the TLS 1.3 downgrade protection mechanism specified in RFC 8446 Section 4.1.3 when using a uTLS ClientHello spec. This allowed an active network adversary to downgrade TLS 1.3 connections initiated by a uTLS client to a lower TLS version (e.g., TLS 1.2) by modifying the ClientHello message to exclude the SupportedVersions extension, causing the server to respond with a TLS 1.2 ServerHello (along with a downgrade canary in the ServerHello random field). Because uTLS did not check the downgrade canary in the ServerHello random field, clients would accept the downgraded connection without detecting the attack. This attack could also be used by an active network attacker to fingerprint uTLS connections. This issue has been fixed in version 1.7.0.
References
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https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/issues/181 x_refsource_MISC
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https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/337 x_refsource_MISC
Affected products
- ==< 1.7.0
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.gnutls
GNU Transport Layer Security Library
pkgs.guile-gnutls
Guile bindings for GnuTLS library
pkgs.python312Packages.python3-gnutls
Python wrapper for the GnuTLS library
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nixos-25.11 python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixos-25.11-small python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin python3-gnutls-3.1.10
pkgs.python313Packages.python3-gnutls
Python wrapper for the GnuTLS library
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nixos-unstable python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixpkgs-unstable python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixos-unstable-small python3-gnutls-3.1.10
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nixos-25.11 python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixos-25.11-small python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin python3-gnutls-3.1.10
pkgs.python314Packages.python3-gnutls
Python wrapper for the GnuTLS library
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nixos-unstable python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixpkgs-unstable python3-gnutls-3.1.10
- nixos-unstable-small python3-gnutls-3.1.10
Package maintainers
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@vcunat Vladimír Čunát <v@cunat.cz>
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@foo-dogsquared Gabriel Arazas <foodogsquared@foodogsquared.one>
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@charlieshanley Charlie Hanley <charlieshanley@gmail.com>