CVE-2022-34903

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-07-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-74

Description

GnuPG through 2.3.6, in unusual situations where an attacker possesses any secret-key information from a victim's keyring and other constraints (e.g., use of GPGME) are met, allows signature forgery via injection into the status line.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36
GnuPG: through 2.3.6
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/02/1
https://bugs.debian.org/1014157
https://dev.gnupg.org/T6027
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FRLWJQ76A4UKHI3Q36BKSJKS4LFLQO33/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NPTAR76EIZY7NQFENSOZO7U473257OVZ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VN63GBTMRWO36Y7BKA2WQHROAKCXKCBL/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VU64FUVG2PRZBSHFOQRSP7KDVEIZ23OS/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220826-0005/
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5174
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/30/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/02/1
https://bugs.debian.org/1014157

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