—

PYSEC-2026-633

FTP backend for Duplicity Discloses Passwords to Process Listing

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-633 — duplicity: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'duplicity>=0.4.9'

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.

Are you affected?

Enter the version of the package you're using.

Affected packages

PyPI/duplicity

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.4.9

Fixpip install --upgrade 'duplicity>=0.4.9'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5201[ADVISORY]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081[WEB]
https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity[PACKAGE]
https://web.archive.org/web/20080118045107/https://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228164800/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771[WEB]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html[WEB]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html[WEB]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/duplicity[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wxcw-rqxc-hj85[ADVISORY]