Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting gnupg2-smime package, versions <0:2.2.20-2.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNUPG2SMIME-3845816
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Nov 2018

Introduced: 23 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-1000858  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 gnupg2-smime to version 0:2.2.20-2.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4490.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnupg2-smime package and not the gnupg2-smime package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

GnuPG version 2.1.12 - 2.2.11 contains a Cross ite Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in dirmngr that can result in Attacker controlled CSRF, Information Disclosure, DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim must perform a WKD request, e.g. enter an email address in the composer window of Thunderbird/Enigmail. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 4a4bb874f63741026bd26264c43bb32b1099f060.