42339 : Duplicity FTP Backend ncftp Process Listing Local Password Disclosure
Printer | http://osvdb.org/42339 | Email This | Edit Vulnerability

Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
3	465	over 4 years ago	over 3 years ago	0 times	5%

This Entry needs help! It is only 5% Complete. Click the edit link above to add more information.

Contributing is fast and easy, and benefits the entire security community.

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2007-09-17	2007-09-17

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-5201" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : 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.

Classification

Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-5201 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 27771
Secunia Advisory ID: 28917
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081
Other Advisory URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html

Tools & Filters

	31065 31073

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-10-05 | Disagree?

Blogs

This product uses the Daylife API but is not endorsed or certified by Daylife.

This section lists the latest news and blogs found via the daylife API (and for older items, the technorati API), which mention or otherwise discuss this vulnerability.

None found at this time

Comments

Add Comment Hide Add Comment

No Comments.

The database information may change without any notice. Use of the information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition, and there are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. In no event shall the copyright holder or distributor (OSVDB or OSF) be held liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use or spread of this information.