PT-2007-6290 · Duplicity · Duplicity

Published 2007-10-04 · Updated 2022-05-01 · CVE-2007-5201

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Duplicity versions prior to 0.4.9

Description The issue concerns the FTP backend of Duplicity, where the password is sent as a command line argument when calling ncftp. This might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.4.9, update to version 0.4.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5201

GHSA-WXCW-RQXC-HJ85

Affected Products

Duplicity

References · 16

• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-5201 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wxcw-rqxc-hj85 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5201 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5201 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5201 · Vendor Advisory
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080118045107/https://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG · Note
• http://osvdb.org/42339 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200228164800/http://securityfocus.com/bid/27771 · Note
• https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28917 · Note
• http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840 · Note