CVE-2020-6857

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2020-6857 · Published 21/01/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-6857 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting carbonftp (taskautomation).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.97%, higher than 62.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
carbonftp taskautomation	`= 1.4`	No fix yet

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.

References

hyp3rlinx.altervista.org · Exploit
packetstormsecurity.com/files/156015/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html · Exploit
packetstormsecurity.com/files/157321/Neowise-CarbonFTP-1.4-Insecure-Proprietary-Password-Encryption.html · Exploit
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/29 · Exploit
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/35 · Exploit
seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/30 · Exploit

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