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.
Published: 2004-09-01
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-1268 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:28.555Z

Reserved: 2002-11-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1284

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Status : Modified

Published: 2002-11-29T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T21:59:03.510

Link: CVE-2002-1284

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