CVE-2004-1948: Ncftp Software Ncftp

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NcFTP client 3.1.6 and 3.1.7, when the username and password are included in an FTP URL that is provided on the command line, allows local users to obtain sensitive information via "ps aux," which displays the URL in the process list.

Affected products

• Ncftp Software Ncftp: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.1.0 only; …

Published 2004-04-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.