Vulnerability CVE-2007-5201
Published: 2007-10-04   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Duplicity -> Duplicity 

 References:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771
http://secunia.com/advisories/28917
http://osvdb.org/42339
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840
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