CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1270

Published: Jul 11, 1998 | Modified: Dec 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kde Kde 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)

References