CVE-2007-5201

medium

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

Advisories

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771

http://secunia.com/advisories/28917

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-10-04

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N