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CVE-2025-68973: gnupg through 2.4.8 (inclusive); +1 more affected products

CVE-2025-68973 affects azl3 gnupg2 2.4.7-1 on Azure Linux 3.0. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.0 (HIGH, NVD). EPSS 0.00152 (percentile 0.03821), scored 12-Oct-2026.

Affected technology

gnupg · through 2.4.8 (inclusive)
gnupg

GnuPG · 0 to before 2.2.51, 2.3.0 to before 2.4.9
GnuPG

Description’s affected range: before 2.4.9, armor_filter in g10/armor.c

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 3.1): Local · No privileges required · No user interaction required

Attack conditions (NVD, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 7.8/10) rates confidentiality and integrity impact as high; availability impact as none. NVD’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 7.0/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.

Published 13-Oct-2026 13:57 UTC

CWE: CWE-675, CWE-787
Product: azl3 gnupg2 2.4.7-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
CCR priority: 28.0 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 7.0 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · NVD
EPSS: 0.00152 · percentile 0.03821 · 2026-10-12
KEV: no

Provenance

FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-13 01:52:16.607887+00:00 UTC
Microsoft MSRC Security Update Guide (CVRF) · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 07:08:49.022374+00:00 UTC
NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-13 13:56:14.349801+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-68973.html