| Name | CVE-2007-5201 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 442840 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| duplicity (PTS) | bullseye | 0.8.17-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.8.22-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.1.4-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[etch] - duplicity <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 0.4.3)
[sarge] - duplicity <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 0.4.3)
ftp is an inherently insecure protocol, any security-sensitive data would
be transferred through the scp, sftp or rsync backends.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/01/msg00190.html