A vulnerability has been identified in Total Commander, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to a design error where a weak password encryption mechanism is used to store FTP account information in the "WCX_FTP.INI" file, which could be exploited by malicious users to obtain FTP usernames and passwords.
Note : The W32.Gudeb worm exploits this vulnerability to gather valid FTP accounts.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Juha-Matti Laurio
ChangeLog
2005-12-07 : Initial release
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