CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0678
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-10-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
PGP 5.5.x through 6.5.3 does not properly check if an Additional Decryption Key (ADK) is stored in the signed portion of a public certificate, which allows an attacker who can modify a victim's public certificate to decrypt any data that has been encrypted with the modified certificate.
Affected configurations
• pgp pgp 5.5.3i
• pgp pgp 6.5.1i
• pgp pgp 6.5.3i
References
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-18.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/4354 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1606 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-18.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/4354 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1606 Patch, Vendor Advisory