Unscored CVE-2000-0271 EUVD-2000-0270GHSA-7mr4-hhph-pp56

read-passwd and other Lisp functions in Emacs 20 do not properly clear the history of recently typed keys, which allows an attacker to read…

Published Apr 26, 2000 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

read-passwd and other Lisp functions in Emacs 20 do not properly clear the history of recently typed keys, which allows an attacker to read unencrypted passwords.

References

20000418 RUS-CERT Advisory 200004-01: GNU Emacs 20 mailing-list
1125 vdb-entry