CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-14855
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-326
Description
A flaw was found in the way certificate signatures could be forged using collisions found in the SHA-1 algorithm. An attacker could use this weakness to create forged certificate signatures. This issue affects GnuPG versions before 2.2.18.
Affected configurations
• gnupg gnupg (< 2.2.18)
• fedoraproject fedora 30
• fedoraproject fedora 31
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength weakness
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-328 Use of Weak Hash weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14855 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T4755 Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2019q4/000442.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://rwc.iacr.org/2020/slides/Leurent.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4516-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14855 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T4755 Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2019q4/000442.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://rwc.iacr.org/2020/slides/Leurent.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4516-1/ Third Party Advisory