CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0271

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2000-04-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-04-18
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

read-passwd and other Lisp functions in Emacs 20 do not properly clear the history of recently typed keys, which allows an attacker to read unencrypted passwords.

Affected configurations

• gnu emacs 20.0 • gnu emacs 20.1 • gnu emacs 20.2 • gnu emacs 20.3 • gnu emacs 20.4 • gnu emacs 20.5 • gnu emacs 20.6

References