CVE-2018-1000858 Cross-site request forgery in n/a

What is CVE-2018-1000858?

CVE-2018-1000858 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 20 Dec 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

GnuPG version 2.1.12 - 2.2.11 contains a Cross ite Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in dirmngr that can result in Attacker controlled CSRF, Information Disclosure, DoS. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim must perform a WKD request, e.g. enter an email address in the composer window of Thunderbird/Enigmail. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 4a4bb874f63741026bd26264c43bb32b1099f060.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1000858?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnupg Gnupg.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1000858?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-1000858 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1000858 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000858, GHSA-44cw-f8qw-mf2h, MGASA-2019-0108, SUSE-SU-2019:0023-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000858, USN-3853-1 and 1 more.