CVE-2019-6690

CVE-2019-6690

Published · Updated

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 8.5%
exploitation probability
8.5%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
python-gnupg 0.4.3 allows context-dependent attackers to trick gnupg to decrypt other ciphertext than intended. To perform the attack, the passphrase to gnupg must be controlled by the adversary and the ciphertext should be trusted. Related to a "CWE-20: Improper Input Validation" issue affecting the affect functionality component.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-02/msg00008.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-02/msg00058.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/151341/Python-GnuPG-0.4.3-Improper-Input-Validation.htmlhttps://blog.hackeriet.no/cve-2019-6690-python-gnupg-vulnerability/https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00021.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00027.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3WMV6XNPPL3VB3RQRFFOBCJ3AGWC4K47/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W6KYZMN2PWXY4ENZVJUVTGFBVYEVY7II/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X4VFRUG56542LTYK4444TPJBGR57MT25/https://pypi.org/project/python-gnupg/#historyhttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jan/41https://usn.ubuntu.com/3964-1/