CVE-2000-0271: GNU Emacs

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Emacs: version 20.0 only; version 20.1 only; version 20.2 only; version 20.3 only; version 20.4 only; version 20.5 only; …

Published 2000-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.