CVE-2007-5201

N/A Unknown

Published: October 04, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

http://osvdb.org/42339

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

http://secunia.com/advisories/28917

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

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