{"id":"CVE-2008-7272","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-7272","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:38:35.252Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2019-11-08T00:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:03:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-312"],"affected":["getfiregpg/firegpg"],"epss":{"score":0.00888,"percentile":0.59046,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.89%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514386","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7272","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757?utm_source=securityvulns&utm_medium=redirect","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514386","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7272","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757?utm_source=securityvulns&utm_medium=redirect","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7272","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}