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01 Record

CVE-2020-6857

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.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 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.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
0.96% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 61.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2020-01-21 16:29Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-04 09:11Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-01-13
Assigning CNA
mitre
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-327Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic AlgorithmClass
  • CWE-798Use of Hard-coded CredentialsBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
c9849000cf53f194c3aa7dc61b7e4b727c4096bdc2526e4da1d230df94796b95

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
taskautomationcarbonftpNot specified—

06 References