GCVE-VVD-CERTCC-2000-26188

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published May 30, 2000

Under certain circumstances, PGP v5.0 generates keys that are not sufficiently random, which may allow an attacker to predict keys and, hence, recover information encrypted with that key.

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Risk Scores

certcc-cam

impact10population10exploitation0widely_known15score_current3.75ease_of_exploitation10

Aliases

CVE-2000-0445

Transitive aliases

GHSA-r4m8-4q3x-xfcc GSD-2000-0445

References

Keys generated with PGP5i batch mode do not contain sufficient randomness on systems that use /dev/random

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Keys generated with PGP5i batch mode do not contain sufficient randomness on systems that use /dev/random

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Keys generated with PGP5i batch mode do not contain sufficient randomness on systems that use /dev/random

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Keys generated with PGP5i batch mode do not contain sufficient randomness on systems that use /dev/random

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