CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-9234

Published: Apr 04, 2018 | Modified: Feb 27, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
2.2 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

GnuPG 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 does not enforce a configuration in which key certification requires an offline master Certify key, which results in apparently valid certifications that occurred only with access to a signing subkey.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gnupg Gnupg 2.2.4 (including) 2.2.4 (including)
Gnupg Gnupg 2.2.5 (including) 2.2.5 (including)
Gnupg Ubuntu upstream *
Gnupg2 Ubuntu bionic *
Gnupg2 Ubuntu devel *
Gnupg2 Ubuntu upstream *

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