A vulnerability exists in libgwenhywfar through 4.12.0 due to the usage of outdated bundled CA certificates.

published 2019-12-03 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-7457

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

distros 2

debian suse

libgwenhywfar Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.12.0beta-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7542

gwenhywfar SLED 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP2, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3 +3 more 4.9.0beta-3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0072-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-7542 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 4.0

gwenhywfar: use system ca-certificates

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

libgwenhywfar libgwenhywfar

Classification

Weakness

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-7542
NVD CVE-2015-7542

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