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Title : Total Commander "WCX_FTP.INI" Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2780
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4066
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-07

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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 [...]

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2780
http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/total-commander.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Juha-Matti Laurio

ChangeLog

2005-12-07 : Initial release

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