CVE-2001-0522: GNU Privacy Guard

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 13.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in Gnu Privacy Guard (aka GnuPG or gpg) 1.05 and earlier can allow an attacker to gain privileges via format strings in the original filename that is stored in an encrypted file.

Affected products

• GNU Privacy Guard: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2001-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.