NcFTP Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	10182
Class:	Design Error
CVE:
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Apr 20 2004 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 20 2004 12:00AM
Credit:	Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to Konstantin Gavrilenko <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1.7 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1.6 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1.5 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1.4 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1.3 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1.2 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1.1 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.1 .0 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.0.4 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.0.3 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.0.2 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.0.1 NcFTP Software NcFTP 3.0 .0
Not Vulnerable:

NcFTP Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

NcFTP has been reported prone to a local information disclosure vulnerability. The issue presents itself because the NcFTP client does not correctly obfuscate arguments that are passed to the client software. If NcFTP client has been launched with an ftp site URI as an argument, this argument will be visible in the 'ps -aux' process list.

NcFTP Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

There is no exploit required.

NcFTP Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

NcFTP Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

References:

• NcFTP Home Page (NcFTP Software)
  
• NcFTP - password leaking (Konstantin Gavrilenko )