vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-20021: Portage: Unverified PGP Signatures

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 12, 2024
Added
Sep 23, 2024
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

In Gentoo Portage before 3.0.47, there is missing PGP validation of executed code: the standalone emerge-webrsync downloads a .gpgsig file but does not perform signature verification. Unless emerge-webrsync is used, Portage is not vulnerable.

Solution

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