Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2: passwords are stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)

["Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele () hushmail com>]

I have noticed a similar, yet much more severe flaw in Filezilla. 
When logging in to a remote server, Filezilla will send the 
password in clear text without encrypting it. This means every 
machine on the internet that it routes through can intercept it. 
Same flaw, much more serious consequences, since, who has access to 
your personal PC anyway?

J

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:09:18 -0400 carl hardwick 
<hardwick.carl () gmail com> wrote:
> A security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2 (and previous versions) 
> allows
> local users to retrieve all saved passwords because they're stored 
> in
> a plain text sitemanager.xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
> <FileZilla3>
>    <Servers>
>        <Server>
>            <Host>ftpspace.domain.com</Host>
>            <Port>21</Port>
>            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
>            <Type>0</Type>
>            <Logontype>1</Logontype>
>            <User>user () domain com</User>
>            <Pass>I'mAPlainTextPassword</Pass>
>
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