CVE-2007-5201
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0.4.3-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 0.4.3-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 0.4.3-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0.4.3-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0.4.3-2 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | duplicity | <0.4.9 | 0.4.9 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5201
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081
- https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080118045107/https://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228164800/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771
- 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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5201
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.