CVE-2002-1284: Kgpg

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

The wizard in KGPG 0.6 through 0.8.2 does not properly provide the passphrase to gpg when creating new keys, which causes secret keys to be created with an empty passphrase and allows local attackers to steal the keys if they can be read.

Affected products

• Kgpg Kgpg: version 0.6 only; version 0.6.1 only; version 0.7 only; version 0.8 only; version 0.8.1 only; version 0.8.2 only

Published 2002-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.