CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1284

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2002-11-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-11-29
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

The wizard in KGPG 0.6 through 0.8.2 does not properly provide the passphrase to gpg when creating new keys, which causes secret keys to be created with an empty passphrase and allows local attackers to steal the keys if they can be read.

Affected configurations

• kgpg kgpg 0.6 • kgpg kgpg 0.6.1 • kgpg kgpg 0.7 • kgpg kgpg 0.8 • kgpg kgpg 0.8.1 • kgpg kgpg 0.8.2

References