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CVE-2020-6857

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-327

Description

CarbonFTP v1.4 uses insecure proprietary password encryption with a hard-coded weak encryption key. The key for local FTP server passwords is hard-coded in the binary.

Affected products

• Taskautomation Carbonftp: 1.4

References

• http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156015/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157321/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/29
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/35
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/30
• http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156015/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157321/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/29
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/35
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/30

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