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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-07 23:40 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:03
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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
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-10-26 00:00
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