CVE-2025-68973 (GCVE-0-2025-68973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-28 16:19 – Updated: 2026-04-30 03:55
VLAI
Summary
In GnuPG before 2.4.9, armor_filter in g10/armor.c has two increments of an index variable where one is intended, leading to an out-of-bounds write for crafted input. (For ExtendedLTS, 2.2.51 and later are fixed versions.)
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-29 00:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-675 - Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2350 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GnuPG GnuPG Affected: 0 , < 2.2.51 (semver)
Affected: 2.3.0 , < 2.4.9 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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