Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting portage package, versions [,3.0.47)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PORTAGE-6154600
  • published12 Jan 2024
  • disclosed12 Jan 2024
  • creditWalter

Introduced: 12 Jan 2024

CVE-2016-20021  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade portage to version 3.0.47 or higher.

Overview

portage is a Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature via the emerge-webrsync component due to missing PGP validation of executed code. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by providing a malicious .gpgsig file that is not properly verified.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1