CVE-2018-12356
An issue was discovered in password-store.sh in pass in Simple Password Store 1.7.x before 1.7.2. The signature verification routine parses the output of GnuPG with an incomplete regular expression,
02 Description
An issue was discovered in password-store.sh in pass in Simple Password Store 1.7.x before 1.7.2. The signature verification routine parses the output of GnuPG with an incomplete regular expression,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.42% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-06-15 02:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 08:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-06-13
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347Improper Verification of Cryptographic SignatureBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 373000f052404ea48e5ded77eb392fbbf99dbb5fa8badd95d37bb7f720584465
05 Affected products
06 References
- git.zx2c4.comhttps://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/commit/?id=8683403b77f59c56fcb1f05c61ab33b9fd61a30d
- openwall.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/14/3
- lists.zx2c4.comhttps://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2018-June/003308.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20190430 Spoofing OpenPGP and S/MIME Signatures in Emails (multiple clients)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/30/4
- seclists.org20190430 OpenPGP and S/MIME signature forgery attacks in multiple email clientshttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Apr/38
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152703/Johnny-You-Are-Fired.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired
- github.comhttps://github.com/RUB-NDS/Johnny-You-Are-Fired/blob/master/paper/johnny-fired.pdf
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- firefox Fixed in 61.0-1
- pass Fixed in 1.7.2-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- password-store Fixed in 1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- password-store Fixed in 1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- password-store Fixed in 1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- password-store No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.