Re: Filezilla's silent caching of user's credentials

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

> Am I the only person who finds it ironic that the same measures
> leveraged against closed source projects have to be employed against
> some open source projects?
Yet another example, complete with a public pissing contest: "XSS in
Squirrelmail plugin 'Virtual Keyboard'",
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/45

As was noted in a previous list mailing:

> This is an alarming trend in open source software, and
> diametrically opposed to the claims of "more eyes equates
> to more secure"", "open source software is more secure",
> and "open source software fixes bugs faster than other
> software models".

Jeff

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ryan Sears <rdsears () mtu edu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As some of you may or may not be aware, the popular (and
> > IMHO one of the best) FTP/SCP program Filezilla caches your
> > credentials for every host you connect to, without either warning
> > or ability to change this without editing an XML file. There have
> > been quite a few bug and features requests filed, and they all
> > get closed or rejected within a week or so. I also posted
> > something in the developer forum inquiring about this, and
> > received this response:
> >
> > "I do not see any harm in storing credentials as long as the
> > rest of your system is properly secure as it should be."
> > Source:(http://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17932)
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > I just wanted to gauge the FD community on this issue,
> > because with enough backing and explanation from the
> > security community as to why this is a problem, this issue
> > may finally be resolved (it's been doing this for years now).
>
> Am I the only person who finds it ironic that the same measures
> leveraged against closed source projects have to be employed against
> some open source projects?
>
> Jeff

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