CVE-2007-5201

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.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/duplicityfrom 0, < 0.4.3-2
• PyPI/duplicityfrom 0, < 0.4.9

References (9)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5201
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5201
• PATCHhttps://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity
• WEBhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840
• WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081
• WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080118045107/https://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
• WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200228164800/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771
• WEBhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html
• WEBhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html