CVE-2000-0678

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2000-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

Pgp: 5.5.3i, 6.5.1i, 6.5.3i

References

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-18.html
http://www.osvdb.org/4354
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1606
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-18.html
http://www.osvdb.org/4354
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1606

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