CVE-2007-5201

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

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 products

Duplicity Project Duplicity: before 0.4.9 — fixed in 0.4.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Duplicity Project Duplicity 0.4.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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