duplicity 'ftpBackend' FTP Password Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:27771

Info

duplicity 'ftpBackend' FTP Password Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 27771
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2007-5201
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Feb 13 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2015 10:04PM
Credit: Sam Morris reported this issue.
Vulnerable: Redhat Fedora 7
duplicity duplicity 0.4.3
Not Vulnerable: duplicity duplicity 0.4.4

Discussion

duplicity 'ftpBackend' FTP Password Disclosure Vulnerability

The 'duplicity' package is prone to a password-disclosure vulnerability because 'ftpBackend' passes connection parameters to the FTP client in an insecure manner.

Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain passwords used for FTP connections.

This issue affects versions prior to duplicity 0.4.4.

Exploit / POC

duplicity 'ftpBackend' FTP Password Disclosure Vulnerability

Attackers can use standard tools to exploit this issue.

Solution / Fix

duplicity 'ftpBackend' FTP Password Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released updates to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


duplicity duplicity 0.4.3

References

duplicity 'ftpBackend' FTP Password Disclosure Vulnerability

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