Vulnerability CVE-2021-3349


Published: 2021-02-01

Description:
** DISPUTED ** GNOME Evolution through 3.38.3 produces a "Valid signature" message for an unknown identifier on a previously trusted key because Evolution does not retrieve enough information from the GnuPG API. NOTE: third parties dispute the significance of this issue, and dispute whether Evolution is the best place to change this behavior.

Type:

CWE-345

(Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Gnome -> Evolution 

 References:
https://dev.gnupg.org/T4735
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/299
https://mgorny.pl/articles/evolution-uid-trust-extrapolation.html

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