CVE-2018-9234

Published: 03 April 2018

GnuPG 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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
gnupg Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.2.6)



	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Not vulnerable
gnupg2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.2.6)



	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Released (2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (2.1.11-6ubuntu2)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist (trusty was not-affected [2.0.22-3ubuntu1.3])
	Patches: Upstream: https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=a17d2d1f690ebe5d005b4589a5fe378b6487c657

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	only affects 2.1.21 and later

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