CVE-2022-34903

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—
GnuPG through 2.3.6, in unusual situations where an attacker possesses any secret-key information from a victim's keyring and other constraints (e.g., use of GPGME) are met, allows signature forgery via injection into the status line.
CVSS

Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Base score: 6.5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.84%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 86
Score date: 10/6/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (5)

Debian — Debian Linux Fedoraproject — Fedora Gnupg — Gnupg Netapp — Active IQ Unified Manager Netapp — Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility
CWEs

CWE-74
References

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