5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.006 Low
EPSS
Percentile
78.4%
Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato reports that the OpenPGP protocol is vulnerable to a cryptographic attack when using symmetric encryption in an automated way.
David Shaw reports about the impact :
This attack, while very significant from a cryptographic point of view, is not generally effective in the real world. To be specific, unless you have your OpenPGP program set up as part of an automated system to accept encrypted messages, decrypt them, and then provide a response to the submitter, then this does not affect you at all.
Note that the fix in GnuPG does note completely eliminate the potential problem :
These patches disable a portion of the OpenPGP protocol that the attack is exploiting. This change should not be user visible. With the patch in place, this attack will not work using a public-key encrypted message. It will still work using a passphrase-encrypted message.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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# AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
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# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
# OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION,
# EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(19349);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0366");
script_xref(name:"CERT", value:"303094");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : gnupg -- OpenPGP symmetric encryption vulnerability (8375a73f-01bf-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)");
script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato reports that the OpenPGP protocol
is vulnerable to a cryptographic attack when using symmetric
encryption in an automated way.
David Shaw reports about the impact :
This attack, while very significant from a cryptographic point of
view, is not generally effective in the real world. To be specific,
unless you have your OpenPGP program set up as part of an automated
system to accept encrypted messages, decrypt them, and then provide a
response to the submitter, then this does not affect you at all.
Note that the fix in GnuPG does note completely eliminate the
potential problem :
These patches disable a portion of the OpenPGP protocol that the
attack is exploiting. This change should not be user visible. With the
patch in place, this attack will not work using a public-key encrypted
message. It will still work using a passphrase-encrypted message."
);
# http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/033
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/033"
);
# http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2005q1/000191.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2005q1/000191.html"
);
# http://www.pgp.com/newsroom/ctocorner/openpgp.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=pgp"
);
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/8375a73f-01bf-11da-bc08-0001020eed82.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f330b2a6"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gnupg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:p5-Crypt-OpenPGP");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pgp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/02/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/07/31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/08/01");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"gnupg<1.4.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"p5-Crypt-OpenPGP<=1.03")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"pgp>=3.0")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");