Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0445

Title: pgpk (PGP 5.x) uses insufficient randomness for non-interactive key generation

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-0445.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 24, 2000

Modified Date Apr 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0445: The pgpk command in PGP 5.x on Unix systems uses an insufficiently random data source for non-interactive key pair generation, which may produce predictable keys.

Impacted Vendors

pgp 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0273.html http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-09.html http://www.osvdb.org/1355 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1251 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0273.html http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-09.html http://www.osvdb.org/1355 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1251

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-0445 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 24, 2000 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.