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CVE-2005-2023

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2023 describes a vulnerability in the send_pinentry_environment function within gpg2 on SUSE Linux 9.3, which can prevent pinentry from being located and consequently cause S/MIME signing to fail. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion with only one mention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0228 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.gnupg.org / pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-June/002291.html
lists.gnupg.org / pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-June/002294.html
lists.gnupg.org / pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-May/002284.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html
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