Security Advisory

CVE-2000-0271

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2000-04-26 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 05:14:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.