A vulnerability has been identified in Backup Manager, which could be exploited by malicious users to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error in the "lib/backup-methods.sh" script that passes the database password as an argument to the command line, which could be exploited by local attackers to disclose the password and gain unauthorized access to the database.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by sharpshopter.
ChangeLog
2007-07-02 : Initial release
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