Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-6857

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 62% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 38.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org x_refsource_MISC
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/30 x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156015/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html x_refsource_MISC
20200121 Neowise CarbonFTP v1.4 / Insecure Proprietary Password Encryption / CVE-2020-6857 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
20200124 [UPDATED - POC] Neowise CarbonFTP v1.4 / Insecure Proprietary Password Encryption / CVE-2020-6857 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157321/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html x_refsource_MISC