CVE-2005-0366

Summary

CVECVE-2005-0366
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe integrity check feature in OpenPGP, when handling a message that was encrypted using cipher feedback (CFB) mode, allows remote attackers to recover part of the plaintext via a chosen-ciphertext attack when the first 2 bytes of a message block are known, and an oracle or other mechanism is available to determine whether an integrity check failed.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-326 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnupg Gnupg All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenPGP Cipher Feedback Mode Chosen-Ciphertext Partial Plaintext Retrieval Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
www.osvdb.org/13775 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Broken Link
Cryptology ePrint Archive af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 eprint.iacr.org Third Party Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
PGP Corporation - Library - CTO Corner - OpenPGP Flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.pgp.com Broken Link
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#303094 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
eprint.iacr.org/2005/033.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 eprint.iacr.org Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - OpenPGP CFB Mode Is Subject to Adaptive Chosen-Plaintext Attacks af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Broken Link
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- GnuPG: OpenPGP protocol attack af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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