CVE-2019-14855 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14855 https://dev.gnupg.org/T4755 https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2019q4/000442.html https://rwc.iacr.org/2020/slides/Leurent.pdf https://usn.ubuntu.com/4516-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5