CVE-2002-0343: Hotline Communications Hotline Connect

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Hotline Client 1.8.5 stores sensitive user information, including passwords, in plaintext in the bookmarks file, which could allow local users with access to the bookmarks file to gain privileges by extracting the passwords.

Affected products

Published 2002-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.