CVE-2008-7272 (GCVE-0-2008-7272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-07 23:40 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:03
VLAI?
Summary
FireGPG before 0.6 handle user’s passphrase and decrypted cleartext insecurely by writing pre-encrypted cleartext and the user's passphrase to disk which may result in the compromise of secure communication or a users’s private key.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public ?
2008-10-26 00:00
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