FKIE_CVE-2007-5201
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-10-04 17:17 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:45
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| duplicity_project | duplicity | * |
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"id": "CVE-2007-5201",
"lastModified": "2026-06-16T22:45:38.680",
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