Midnight Commander up to 4.5.10.22 FTP Client cleartext storage
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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Midnight Commander up to 4.5.10.22. This issue affects an unknown code of the component FTP Client. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
FTP client in Midnight Commander (mc) before 4.5.11 stores usernames and passwords for visited sites in plaintext in the world-readable history file, which allows other local users to gain privileges.
The weakness was presented 08/01/1999 by coda as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-1337. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1555 for this issue. The CPE assignment and the CVE summary mismatch regarding the version.
After 51 minutes, there has been an exploit disclosed.
It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (9873).
Product
Name
Version
- 4.5.10.0
- 4.5.10.1
- 4.5.10.2
- 4.5.10.3
- 4.5.10.4
- 4.5.10.5
- 4.5.10.6
- 4.5.10.7
- 4.5.10.8
- 4.5.10.9
- 4.5.10.10
- 4.5.10.11
- 4.5.10.12
- 4.5.10.13
- 4.5.10.14
- 4.5.10.15
- 4.5.10.16
- 4.5.10.17
- 4.5.10.18
- 4.5.10.19
- 4.5.10.20
- 4.5.10.21
- 4.5.10.22
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8
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Exploiting
Class: Cleartext storageCWE: CWE-312 / CWE-310
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
Recommended: AuthenticationStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/01/1999 🔍08/01/1999 🔍
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04/09/2004 🔍
06/21/2014 🔍
04/04/2019 🔍
Sources
Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.comResearcher: coda
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-1999-1337 (🔍)
X-Force: 9873 - Midnight Commander has world readable directory and files
OSVDB: 5921 - Midnight Commander Cleartext Password Storage
Entry
Created: 06/21/2014 17:59Updated: 04/04/2019 16:52
Changes: 06/21/2014 17:59 (52), 04/04/2019 16:52 (4)
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