CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1270

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1998-07-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-07-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

KMail in KDE 1.0 provides a PGP passphrase as a command line argument to other programs, which could allow local users to obtain the passphrase and compromise the PGP keys of other users by viewing the arguments via programs that list process information, such as ps.

Affected configurations

• kde kde 1.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-214 Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information weakness

References