CVE-2001-0072: GNU Privacy Guard

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gpg (aka GnuPG) 1.0.4 and other versions imports both public and private keys from public key servers without notifying the user about the private keys, which could allow an attacker to break the web of trust.

Affected products

• GNU Privacy Guard: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.3b only

Published 2001-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.