full-disclosure - Re: Filezilla's silent caching of user's credentials

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimZdoqbw8qt4MkavZUyE3bjRh5LwhudqBiOVT8t@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:46:18 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: Ryan Sears <rdsears@....edu>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Filezilla's silent caching of user's
	credentials

> 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@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Ryan Sears <rdsears@....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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