Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting gnupg package, versions [1.0.2,1.2.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.28% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUPG-2336134
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Dec 2003
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Dec 2003

CVE-2003-0971  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnupg to version 1.2.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inadequate Encryption Strength. GnuPG (GPG) 1.0.2, and other versions up to 1.2.3, creates ElGamal type 20 (sign+encrypt) keys using the same key component for encryption as for signing, which allows attackers to determine the private key from a signature.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1