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CVE-2022-34903

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-34903 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GnuPG versions up to 2.3.6, as well as products from Debian, Fedora, and NetApp. It allows for signature forgery under specific, unusual conditions where an attacker has partial secret-key information and other constraints are met, such as the use of GPGME. The attack has high impact on confidentiality and low impact on integrity, with a CVSS score of 6.5. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0257 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18484-16820Fixed in: 2.2.20-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18671-16823Fixed in: 2.3.7-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 gnupg2 2.2.20-4 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 2.2.20-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 gnupg2 2.3.7-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.3.7-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnupg2-0:2.2.20-3.el8_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: gnupg2-0:2.3.3-2.el9_0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2022-Jul/CVE-2022-34903Moderate

GnuPG through 2.3.6 in unusual situations where an attacker possesses any secret-key information from a victim's keyring and other constraints (e.g. use of GPGME) are met allows signature forgery via injection into the status line.

Jul 12, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-34903Moderate

gpg: Signature spoofing via status line injection

Jun 30, 2022

References

bugs.debian.org / 1014157
Issue TrackingMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
dev.gnupg.org / T6027
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FRLWJQ76A4UKHI3Q36BKSJKS4LFLQO33
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NPTAR76EIZY7NQFENSOZO7U473257OVZ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VN63GBTMRWO36Y7BKA2WQHROAKCXKCBL
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VU64FUVG2PRZBSHFOQRSP7KDVEIZ23OS
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20220826-0005
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5174
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/06/30/1
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/07/02/1
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory