# CVE-2022-3219: GnuPG can be made to spin on a relatively small input by (for example) crafting a public key with thousands of signatures attached, compress

- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-02-23 · Updated: 2025-03-12

## Affected

- n/a gnupg: gnupg2

## Description

GnuPG can be made to spin on a relatively small input by (for example) crafting a public key with thousands of signatures attached, compressed down to just a few KB.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a gnupg, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://dev.gnupg.org/D556
- https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=165696590211434&w=4
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3219
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2127010
- https://dev.gnupg.org/T5993
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230324-0001/

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