CVE-2020-6857 describes an insecure proprietary password encryption vulnerability in CarbonFTP v1.4, affecting taskautomation carbonftp products. The flaw stems from a hard-coded, weak encryption key used for local FTP server passwords, making them susceptible to decryption. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability can be exploited locally with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality impact by exposing sensitive credentials. While not actively exploited in the wild (KEV: No), public exploit code exists via ExploitDB (EDB-48363), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:taskautomation:carbonftp:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.