Vulnerability in Gnu Emacs

CVE-2000-0271

read-passwd and other Lisp functions in Emacs 20 do not properly clear the history of recently typed keys, which allows an attacker to read unencrypted passwords.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnu Emacs — versions 20.0, 20.1, 20.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)