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Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnupg2 Open this link in a new tab

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.23% (61st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1910-GNUPG2-583072
  • published 25 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 20 Mar 2020
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Introduced: 25 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-14855 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-327 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnupg2 package and not the gnupg2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.