CVE-2018-9234

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

GnuPG 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 does not enforce a configuration in which key certification requires an offline master Certify key, which results in apparently valid certifications that occurred only with access to a signing subkey.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-9234

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-9234.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.2.5-2
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.7-1
debian debiansidfixed2.2.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.7-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.