UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118131: Medium severity ubuntu/gnupg2 vulnerability

Published Oct 27, 2026
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Updated

GnuPG (version 2.5.21) for Windows contains a vulnerability where default Discretionary Access Control List (DACL) inheritance on the C:\ProgramData directory allows members of the BUILTIN\Users group to create arbitrary subdirectories under this path. An attacker with low-privilege access can create the expected GnuPG configuration directory and inject malicious configuration files consumed by GnuPG components. This can result in code execution within the security context of the victim user.

Affected Software

7 affected components
ubuntu/gnupg2*
ubuntu/gnupg2*
ubuntu/gnupg2*
ubuntu/gnupg2*
ubuntu/gnupg2*
ubuntu/gnupg2*
ubuntu/gnupg2*

Event History

Oct 27, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·06:17 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·06:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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