CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7272
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-312
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• getfiregpg firegpg (< 0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514386 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7272 Third Party Advisory
- https://vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757?utm_source=securityvulns&utm_medium=redirect Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514386 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7272 Third Party Advisory
- https://vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757?utm_source=securityvulns&utm_medium=redirect Third Party Advisory