CVE-2002-1284

medium

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10629

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6152

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103702926611286&w=2

http://devel-home.kde.org/~kgpg/bug.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-11-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00068