CVE-2007-5201 (GCVE-0-2007-5201)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-04 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:24
VLAI
Summary
The FTP backend for Duplicity before 0.4.9 sends the password as a command line argument when calling ncftp, which might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/28917 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://osvdb.org/42339 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2007-09-19 00:00
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