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CVE-2014-4617

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4617 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24, where malformed compressed packets can trigger an infinite loop in the do_uncompress function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a potential denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0331 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: gnupg
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: gnupg2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: gnupg2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gnupg2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4617Moderate

gnupg: infinite loop when decompressing data packets

Jun 20, 2014

References

git.gnupg.org / cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
git.gnupg.org / cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
lists.gnupg.org / pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html
Mailing ListVendor Advisory
lists.gnupg.org / pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html
Mailing ListVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59213
secunia.com / advisories/59351
secunia.com / advisories/59534
secunia.com / advisories/59578
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2967
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2968
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2258-1