Severity
10.0CRITICAL
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 17
Latest updateOct 25

Description

The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp.c in gpg2 on SUSE Linux 9.3 does not properly handle certain options, which can prevent pinentry from being found and causes S/MIME signing to fail.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

Debiangnupg2< 1.9.15-1+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
crypto-es PBKDF2 1,000 times weaker than specified in 1993 and 1.3M times weaker than current standard2023-10-25
GHSA
crypto-js PBKDF2 1,000 times weaker than specified in 1993 and 1.3M times weaker than current standard2023-10-25
GHSA
GHSA-5phw-pq6g-29m4: The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp2022-05-01
CVEList
CVE-2005-2023: The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp2005-06-21
OSV
CVE-2005-2023: The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp2005-06-17

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
crypto-js: PBKDF2 1,000 times weaker than specified in 1993 and 1.3M times weaker than current standard2023-10-25
Debian
CVE-2005-2023: gnupg2 - The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp.c in gpg2 on SUSE Linux 9.3 do...2005