CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1696

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published: Dec 31, 2002 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Microsoft Outlook plug-in PGP version 7.0, 7.0.3, and 7.0.4 silently saves a decrypted copy of a message to hard disk when Automatically decrypt/verify when opening messages option is checked, Always use Secure Viewer when decrypting option is not checked, and the user replies to an encrypted message.

Weakness

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Personal_privacy Pgp 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Personal_privacy Pgp 7.0.3 (including) 7.0.3 (including)
Personal_privacy Pgp 7.0.4 (including) 7.0.4 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References