Vulnerability CVE-2019-13050


Published: 2019-06-29   Modified: 2019-06-30

Description:
Interaction between the sks-keyserver code through 1.2.0 of the SKS keyserver network, and GnuPG through 2.2.16, makes it risky to have a GnuPG keyserver configuration line referring to a host on the SKS keyserver network. Retrieving data from this network may cause a persistent denial of service, because of a Certificate Spamming Attack.

Type:

CWE-297

(Improper Validation of Host-specific Certificate Data)

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

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
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Sks keyserver project -> Sks keyserver 
Gnupg -> Gnupg 

 References:
https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2019q3/000439.html

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