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CVE-2008-7272

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7272 describes a critical vulnerability in FireGPG before version 0.6, where the software insecurely writes pre-encrypted cleartext and user passphrases to disk, potentially compromising secure communications or private keys. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high confidentiality impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not currently a high-profile threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:getfiregpg:firegpg:*:*:*:*:*:firefox:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0089 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2008-7272
Third Party Advisory
vulners.com / securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:20757
Third Party Advisory