CVE-2007-5201
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (32th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-5669)
- Published
- October 4, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5669 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- duplicity project / duplicity
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840(Third Party Advisory)
- http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG(Broken Link)
- http://osvdb.org/42339(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28917(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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