What is CVE-2022-24953?

CVE-2022-24953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pear Crypt Gpg, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-02-17.

How severe is CVE-2022-24953?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Pear Crypt Gpg

CVE-2022-24953

The Crypt_GPG extension before 1.6.7 for PHP does not prevent additional options in GPG calls, which presents a risk for certain environments and GPG versions.

Published 2022-02-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (56.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 56.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Pear Crypt Gpg

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

References

github.com/pear/Crypt_GPG/commit/74c8f989cefbe0887274b461dc56197e121bfd04 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/pear/Crypt_GPG/commit/29c0fbe96d0d4063ecd5c9a4644cb65a7fb7cc4e (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-24953?: CVE-2022-24953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pear Crypt Gpg, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-02-17.
How severe is CVE-2022-24953?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.