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CVE-2000-0271

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2000-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• GNU Emacs: 20.0, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5 (+1)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1125
• http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&date=2000-04-15&msg=tg4s8zioxq.fsf%40mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1125
• http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&date=2000-04-15&msg=tg4s8zioxq.fsf%40mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de

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