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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-25125

GnuPG 2.2.21 and 2.2.22 (and Gpg4win 3.1.12) has an array overflow, leading to a crash or possibly unspecified other impact, when a victim imports an attacker's OpenPGP key, and this key has AEAD preferences. The overflow is caused by a g10/key-check.c error. NOTE: GnuPG 2.3.x is unaffected. GnuPG 2.2.23 is a fixed version.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:10 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-25125

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Sept 2020, 18:15 UTC

GnuPG 2.2.21 and 2.2.22 (and Gpg4win 3.1.12) has an array overflow, leading to a crash or possibly unspecified other impact, when a victim imports an attacker's OpenPGP key, and this key has AEAD preferences. The overflow is caused by a g10/key-check.c error. NOTE: GnuPG 2.3.x is unaffected. GnuPG 2.2.23 is a fixed version.

osv:CVE-2020-25125
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-25125",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-25125",
    "summary": "GnuPG 2.2.21 and 2.2.22 (and Gpg4win 3.1.12) has an array overflow, leading to a crash or possibly unspecified other impact, when a victim imports an attacker's OpenPGP key, and this key has AEAD preferences. The overflow is caused by a g10/key-check.c error. NOTE: GnuPG 2.3.x is unaffected. GnuPG 2.2.23 is a fixed version.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-25125",
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.352770320Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2020q3/000448.html",
        "https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176034",
        "https://dev.gnupg.org/rG8ec9573e57866dda5efb4677d4454161517484bc",
        "https://dev.gnupg.org/T5050"
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                  },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431340,
  "published_at": "2020-09-03T18:15:15.16+00:00"
}