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CVE-2008-7272

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-312

Description

FireGPG before 0.6 handle user’s passphrase and decrypted cleartext insecurely by writing pre-encrypted cleartext and the user's passphrase to disk which may result in the compromise of secure communication or a users’s private key.

Affected products

• Getfiregpg Firegpg: before 0.6 — fixed in 0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Getfiregpg Firegpg 0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514386
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7272
• https://vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757?utm_source=securityvulns&utm_medium=redirect
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514386
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7272
• https://vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757?utm_source=securityvulns&utm_medium=redirect

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