2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-4656

Published: 04/09/2007 Updated: 28/08/2013
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

backup-manager-upload in Backup Manager prior to 0.6.3 provides the FTP server hostname, username, and password as plaintext command line arguments during FTP uploads, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by listing the process and its arguments, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2766.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #439392 backup-manager: password disclosure in backup uploads Package: backup-manager; Maintainer for backup-manager is Maximiliano Curia <maxy@debianorg>; Source for backup-manager is src:backup-manager (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Micha Lenk <micha@lenkinfo> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 1 ...
Micha Lenk discovered that backup-manager, a command-line backup tool, sends the password as a command line argument when calling a FTP client, which may allow a local attacker to read this password (which provides access to all backed-up files) from the process listing For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in versio ...