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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:getfiregpg:firegpg:*:*:*:*:*:firefox:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.