CVE-2007-5201

duplicity < 0.4.9 - Exposure of Sensitive Information via FTP Backend Command Line Argument

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (8)

Core 8
Core References
Broken Link x_refsource_confirm
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/42339
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28917
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 29.2%

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (2)
duplicity_project/duplicity < 0.4.9
pypi/duplicity 0 - 0.4.9PyPI
Published Oct 04, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026