CVE-1999-1270

Publication date

2001-09-12 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.