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CVE-2025-68973VulnerabilityPublished Updated

SUSE · Security update for gpg2

Affects SUSESource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 10.2 or 9.8 soon.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 4% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 10.2, 9.8

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 Jan 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Upgrade SUSE to 10.2 or 9.8.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
SUSE Product Security Team SUSEAffected
  • >=10.0.0 <10.2
  • =1.8.1
  • >=9.0.0 <9.8
  • Red Hat
  • OpenShift Compliance Operator
  • OpenShift Compliance Operator 1
  • arm64
  • registry.redhat.io/compliance/openshift-compliance-rhel8-operator@sha256:68ba04c2a97a1dbe3780ed8c6b86af3079584211e3d466f00dcd7a509281f371_arm64
  • amd64
  • registry.redhat.io/compliance/openshift-compliance-operator-bundle@sha256:ddc2f107588e25d38af6eb58c7b106124f447deae8090ce4d78eead12487d1bf_amd64
  • Compliance Operator
  • Compliance Operator 1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • SUSE
  • dirmngr-2.5.5-160000.3.1.aarch64
  • gpg2-2.5.5-160000.3.1.aarch64
  • gpg2-tpm-2.5.5-160000.3.1.aarch64
  • x86_64
  • gnupg2-0:2.3.3-4.el9_6.1.x86_64
  • gnupg2-smime-0:2.3.3-4.el9_6.1.x86_64
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise
  • gpg2-0:2.5.5-160000.3.1.aarch64
  • ppc64le
  • gpg2-0:2.5.5-160000.3.1.ppc64le
Fixed in
  • 10.2
  • 9.8

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released official security updates for gnupg2 that address CVE-2025-68973. Users should apply the provided patches for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 9 and 10 as detailed in advisories RHSA-2026:0697 and RHSA-2026:0719. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying these updates will remediate the vulnerability.

Description

This update for gpg2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-68973: out-of-bounds write when processing specially crafted input in the armor parser can lead to memory corruption (bsc#1255715). Other security fixes: - gpg: Avoid potential downgrade to SHA1 in 3rd party key signatures (bsc#1256246). - gpg: Error out on unverified output for non-detached signatures (bsc#1256244). - gpg: Deprecate the option --not-dash-escaped (bsc#1256390).

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