Vulnerability CVE-2000-0678


Published: 2000-10-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
PGP 5.5.x through 6.5.3 does not properly check if an Additional Decryption Key (ADK) is stored in the signed portion of a public certificate, which allows an attacker who can modify a victim's public certificate to decrypt any data that has been encrypted with the modified certificate.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
PGP -> PGP 

 References:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-18.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1606
http://www.osvdb.org/4354

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