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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2006-0049 json

gpg in GnuPG before 1.4.2.2 does not properly verify non-detached signatures, which allows attackers to inject unsigned data via a data pac…

published 2006-03-13 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0057

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

gpg in GnuPG before 1.4.2.2 does not properly verify non-detached signatures, which allows attackers to inject unsigned data via a data packet that is not associated with a control packet, which causes the check for concatenated signatures to report that the signature is valid, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-0455.

Patch / fix

  • gnupg RHEL 3 1.2.1-15
  • gnupg RHEL 4 1.2.6-3

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0266

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-0049 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 gnupg 1.2.1-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 gnupg 1.2.1-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 gnupg 1.2.6-3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 gnupg 1.2.6-3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 gnupg 1.2.1-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 gnupg 1.2.6-3
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 gnupg 1.2.1-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 gnupg 1.2.6-3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0266

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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