CVE-1999-1270 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1270?

CVE-1999-1270 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kde Kde, published on 12 Sep 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1270?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Kde Kde.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1270?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1270 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-1999-1270 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1270 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Kde Kde

• CVE-2005-0011 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0690 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-1670 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2012-4512 Memory corruption in Konqueror High 8.8
• CVE-2006-0019 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5

All Kde Kde vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5m8h-jjf9-c2p5.