CVE-2022-29620 (GCVE-0-2022-29620)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-07 20:07 – Updated: 2024-08-03 06:26 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
FileZilla v3.59.0 allows attackers to obtain cleartext passwords of connected SSH or FTP servers via a memory dump.- NOTE: the vendor does not consider this a vulnerability
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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References
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