CVE-2008-7272 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2019-11-07

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:getfiregpg:firegpg:*:*:*:*:*:firefox:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-7225	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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00218.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514386
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7272
https://vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757?utm_source=securityvulns&utm_medium=redirect

History

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Subscriptions

Getfiregpg Firegpg

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-11-07T23:40:32.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:03:35.676Z

Reserved: 2011-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-7272

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-08T00:15:10.210

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:58:42.540

Link: CVE-2008-7272

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-312

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