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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2007-5201 json

FTP backend for Duplicity Discloses Passwords to Process Listing

published 2007-10-04 19 y ago modified 2026-07-06 4 mo ago also GHSA-wxcw-rqxc-hj85 , PYSEC-2026-633 , EUVD-2022-5669

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi duplicity 0.4.9
  • duplicity_project duplicity 0.4.9
  • duplicity Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.4.3-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5201

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-5201 updated

Duplicity discloses password in FTP backend

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi duplicity
<0.4.9
0.4.9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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