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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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2002-1284

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-1284

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