Vulnerability in Gnupg
CVE-2019-14855
A flaw was found in the way certificate signatures could be forged using collisions found in the SHA-1 algorithm. An attacker could use this weakness to create forged certificate signatures. This issue affects GnuPG versions before 2.2.18.
EPSS: 0.011 (60.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
Affected products
- Gnupg
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 18.04
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 30, 31
- Red Hat Gnupg2 — versions 2.2.18
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- secalert@redhat.com (Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-14855?
- CVE-2019-14855 is a high-severity vulnerability in Gnupg, classified under Inadequate Encryption Strength. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-03-20.
- How severe is CVE-2019-14855?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2019-14855 known to be exploited?
- 5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.