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Vulnerability · Published Feb 12, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-8945

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the golang-github-proglottis-gpgme package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 5.1% (higher than 92% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)5.1%top 7.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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 packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12golang-github-proglottis-gpgme0.1.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8945
Debian:13golang-github-proglottis-gpgme0.1.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8945
Debian:14golang-github-proglottis-gpgme0.1.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8945
Gogithub.com/proglottis/gpgme0.1.1GHSA-m6wg-2mwg-4rfq
Gogithub.com/proglottis/gpgme0.1.1GO-2021-0096
Ubuntu:25.10singularity-containerno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-8945
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSsingularity-containerno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-8945

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References