Vulnerability · Published Dec 27, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-68972
Medium 5.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in GnuPG from GnuPG. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 1% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
In GnuPG through 2.4.8, if a signed message has \f at the end of a plaintext line, an adversary can construct a modified message that places additional text after the signed material, such that signature verification of the modified message succeeds (although an "invalid armor" message is printed during verification). This is related to use of \f as a marker to denote truncation of a long plaintext line.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.20 | gnupg | 2.4.9-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | gnupg | 2.4.9-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | gnupg | 2.4.9-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | gnupg | 2.4.9-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | gnupg | 2.4.9-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Debian:12 | gnupg2 | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Debian:13 | gnupg2 | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Debian:14 | gnupg2 | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | gnupg2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | gnupg2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68972 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | gnupg2 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68972 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-347 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N