CVE-2026-71887
validatedZero produced an exploit or a check.GHSA-cwf6-pghv-hq93 ↗EUVD-2026-91993 ↗
description
bcpg versions before 1.86 can associate a genuine OpenPGP subkey signature with an attacker-controlled certificate identity when applications use the high-level API. Exploitation requires a verifier to process a crafted certificate containing a public signing subkey and a message genuinely signed by that subkey; it does not enable creation of new signatures.
mitigation
Upgrade bcpg to version 1.86 or later. Until then, do not derive signer identity from an enclosing certificate when using the affected high-level API; make trust decisions using the signing subkey fingerprint.
fixed in 1.86
outcome
Mechanism verified: the exploit fired on the vulnerable build and stayed silent on the patched one, but the server it ran against was ours, so no check ships for it.
source signals
Public signals that triggered or updated the pipeline. These are inputs for the deltas above.
- 2026-10-03 08:39Zcve_org: trigger signal, started the run
this entry in the feed
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published 2026-10-03 09:13Z
last change 2026-10-21 18:49Z
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