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CVE-2021-3349 (GCVE-0-2021-3349)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-01 04:04 – Updated: 2024-08-03 16:53 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
GNOME Evolution through 3.38.3 produces a "Valid signature" message for an unknown identifier on a previously trusted key because Evolution does not retrieve enough information from the GnuPG API. NOTE: third parties dispute the significance of this issue, and dispute whether Evolution is the best place to change this behavior
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-11 14:46 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
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