CVE-2022-3219 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

GnuPG can be made to spin on a relatively small input by (for example) crafting a public key with thousands of signatures attached, compressed down to just a few KB.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00012.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gnupg	Gnupg

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-42633	GnuPG can be made to spin on a relatively small input by (for example) crafting a public key with thousands of signatures attached, compressed down to just a few KB.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3219
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2127010
https://dev.gnupg.org/D556
https://dev.gnupg.org/T5993
https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=165696590211434&w=4
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3219
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230324-0001/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3219

History

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-02-23T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-12T20:45:46.104Z

Reserved: 2022-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3219

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:00:10.537Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-23T20:15:12.393

Modified: 2025-03-12T21:15:38.207

Link: CVE-2022-3219

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-09-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3219 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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