CVE-1999-1562 (GCVE-0-1999-1562)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:18
VLAI
Summary
gFTP FTP client 1.13, and other versions before 2.0.0, records a password in plaintext in (1) the log window, or (2) in a log file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3446 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/26915 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-084 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
1999-09-05 00:00
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