# CVE-2019-14855: A flaw was found in the way certificate signatures could be forged using collisions found in the SHA-1 algorithm.

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-03-20 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Red Hat gnupg2: 2.2.18

## Description

A flaw was found in the way certificate signatures could be forged using collisions found in the SHA-1 algorithm. An attacker could use this weakness to create forged certificate signatures. This issue affects GnuPG versions before 2.2.18.

## What to do

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## References

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4516-1/
- https://rwc.iacr.org/2020/slides/Leurent.pdf
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14855
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2019q4/000442.html
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T4755

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