Vulnerability in KDE

CVE-1999-1270

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (23.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Kde — versions 1.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References