BREW-DUPLICITY-CVE-2007-5201 (GHSA-WXCW-RQXC-HJ85)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 16:44 – Updated: 2026-10-31 18:52 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
FTP backend for Duplicity Discloses Passwords to Process Listing
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "fix": "bump",
        "range_state": "fixed",
        "upstream_fixed_in": "0.4.9"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Homebrew",
        "name": "duplicity",
        "purl": "pkg:brew/duplicity"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.1.0_2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "matched",
    "strategy": "registry",
    "upstream_evidence": [
      {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "key": "pkg:pypi/duplicity@3.2.2",
        "name": "duplicity",
        "strategy": "registry",
        "subject_version": "3.2.2"
      },
      {
        "ecosystem": "Debian",
        "key": "Debian/duplicity",
        "name": "duplicity",
        "strategy": "distro"
      },
      {
        "ecosystem": "GIT",
        "key": "upstream:https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity",
        "name": "https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity",
        "strategy": "distro",
        "subject_version": "3.2.2"
      },
      {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "key": "upstream:pkg:pypi/duplicity@3.2.2",
        "name": "duplicity",
        "strategy": "distro",
        "subject_version": "3.2.2"
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BREW-duplicity-CVE-2007-5201",
  "modified": "2026-10-31T18:52:10Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T16:44:03Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5201"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080118045107/https://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200228164800/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.3",
  "summary": "FTP backend for Duplicity Discloses Passwords to Process Listing",
  "upstream": [
    "GHSA-wxcw-rqxc-hj85",
    "CVE-2007-5201",
    "PYSEC-2026-633"
  ]
}



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