CVE-2018-9234

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-9234
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-04 00:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-02-27 19:37:00 UTC
DescriptionGnuPG 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 does not enforce a configuration in which key certification requires an offline master Certify key, which results in apparently valid certifications that occurred only with access to a signing subkey.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-320

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.2.4 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.2.5 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.2.4 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.2.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
⚓ T3844 Able to certify public keys without a certify key present when using smartcard. MISC dev.gnupg.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-3675-1: GnuPG vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296088 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 9.1.5 Missing (CPUAPR2019)
  • 670177 EulerOS Security Update for gnupg2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1677)
  • 671115 EulerOS Security Update for gnupg2 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2393)
  • 754987 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for gpg2 (SUSE-SU-2023:3857-1)
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