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CVE-2007-5201

Published: Oct 4, 2007Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-200
NVD MITRE
4.6CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 71.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LAu:NC:PI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:LAccess Vector
Local
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected Products

duplicityduplicity project
Mixed
Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin
duplicityPyPIOSS Libraries
n/an/a
duplicity projectWeb & CMS Pluginsaka duplicity project
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840
bugs.debian.org
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
duplicity.nongnu.org
http://osvdb.org/42339
osvdb.org
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Timeline

Published
Oct 4, 2007
Last Updated
Apr 23, 2026

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