CVE-1999-1270

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1998-07-11 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1270, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

KMail in KDE 1.0 provides a PGP passphrase as a command line argument to other programs, which could allow local users to obtain the passphrase and compromise the PGP keys of other users by viewing the arguments via programs that list process information, such as ps.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1270

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P