CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2020-6857
Medium (5.5) in taskautomation carbonftp. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CarbonFTP v1.4 uses insecure proprietary password encryption with a hard-coded weak encryption key. The key for local FTP server passwords is hard-coded in the binary.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-327, CWE-798
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- taskautomation:carbonftp
References
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156015/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157321/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/29
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/35