CVE-2007-5201

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    CVE-2007-5201

    Published: 4 Oct 2007Last Modified: 6 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840, http://secunia.com/advisories/28917, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081, http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG, http://osvdb.org/42339

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High