THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-8945
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-8945

Gpgme vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.1%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
The proglottis Go wrapper before 0.1.1 for the GPGME library has a use-after-free, as demonstrated by use for container image pulls by Docker or CRI-O. This leads to a crash or potential code execution during GPG signature verification.
Affected vendor
Gpgme Project
Affected product
Gpgme
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-02-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-8945

  • Confirm whether Gpgme Project Gpgme is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-8945.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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