What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-0788

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-459

Description

An interaction between PGP 7.0.3 with the "wipe deleted files" option, when used on Windows Encrypted File System (EFS), creates a cleartext temporary files that cannot be wiped or deleted due to strong permissions, which could allow certain local users or attackers with physical access to obtain cleartext information.

Affected products

• Pgp Corporate Desktop: 7.1
• Pgp Freeware: 7.0.3
• Pgp Personal Security: 7.0.3

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0052.html
• http://download.nai.com/products/licensed/pgp/desktop_security/windows/version_7.1/hotfix/ReadMe.txt
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9044.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/4363
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4702
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0052.html
• http://download.nai.com/products/licensed/pgp/desktop_security/windows/version_7.1/hotfix/ReadMe.txt
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9044.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/4363
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4702

Get alerted when CVE-2002-0788 or the next vulnerability affects your stack