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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published May 7, 2001

Description

gpg (aka GnuPG) 1.0.4 and other versions imports both public and private keys from public key servers without notifying the user about the private keys, which could allow an attacker to break the web of trust.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (12)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 7, 2001
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Feb 1, 2001
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Dec 19, 2000