Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0678

Title: PGP ADK in signed cert can enable decryption of encrypted data

Cryptographic key compromise / Information disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2000-0678.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 20, 2000

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0678: PGP 5.5.x through 6.5.3 does not properly check if an Additional Decryption Key (ADK) is stored in the signed portion of a public certificate, which allows an attacker who can modify a victim's public certificate to decrypt any data that has been encrypted with the modified certificate.

Impacted Vendors

pgp 1

Reference Links

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-18.html http://www.osvdb.org/4354 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1606 http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-18.html http://www.osvdb.org/4354 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1606

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-0678 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 20, 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.