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CVE-2020-25125

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-25125 is an array overflow vulnerability affecting GnuPG versions 2.2.21 and 2.2.22, as well as Gpg4win 3.1.12. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a crash or potentially other unspecified impacts when a victim imports a specially crafted OpenPGP key with AEAD preferences. Rated High (CVSS 7.8), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.2.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.2.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gpg4win:gpg4win:3.1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0128 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-25125Moderate

gnupg: AEAD preference list overflow

Sep 4, 2020

References

bugzilla.opensuse.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
dev.gnupg.org / rG8ec9573e57866dda5efb4677d4454161517484bc
PatchVendor Advisory
dev.gnupg.org / T5050
Mailing List
lists.gnupg.org / pipermail/gnupg-announce/2020q3/000448.html
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/09/03/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/09/03/5
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory