Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
CVE-2008-7272
Summary
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.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
- NONE
CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
The application stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published