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critical 9.8

CVE-2014-1929 json

python-gnupg vulnerable to shell injection

published 2014-10-25 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vcr5-xr9h-mvc5 , PYSEC-2014-92 , EUVD-2014-0090

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

python-gnupg 0.3.5 and 0.3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors related to "option injection through positional arguments." NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7323.

Patch / fix

  • pypi python-gnupg 0.3.7
  • python-gnupg Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.3.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1929

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-1929 updated cvss 6.8

python-gnupg: incorrect fix against shell injection

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi python-gnupg
>=0.3.5, <0.3.7
0.3.7

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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