Vulnerability in Gnupg
CVE-2005-0366
The integrity check feature in OpenPGP, when handling a message that was encrypted using cipher feedback (CFB) mode, allows remote attackers to recover part of the plaintext via a chosen-ciphertext attack when the first 2 bytes of a message block are known, and an oracle or other mechanism is available to determine whether an integrity check failed.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (86.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-29.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/13775 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/303094 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.pgp.com/library/ctocorner/openpgp.html (Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12529 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_sr.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- eprint.iacr.org/2005/033.pdf (Technical Description, Third Party Advisory)
- eprint.iacr.org/2005/033 (Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2005-0366?
- CVE-2005-0366 is a vulnerability in Gnupg, classified under Inadequate Encryption Strength. Published 2005-05-02.
- Is CVE-2005-0366 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.