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Cisco Firewall Products Unintentional Password Modification
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21616
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Release Date:
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2006-08-24
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Last Update:
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2006-08-25
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Popularity:
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11,279 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 7.x
Cisco PIX 7.x
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| Software: | Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 1.x
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 2.x
Cisco Firewall Services Module (FWSM) 3.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-4312
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Description:
A security issue has been reported in various Cisco Firewall products, which may allow malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
The problem is caused due to an error resulting in certain passwords (EXEC password, passwords of locally defined usernames, and the enable password in the start-up configuration) being unintentionally changed to a non-random value without user intervention.
The error may happen during a software crash or multiple users configuring a device at the same time.
This may result in users being locked out or lead to unauthorised access to an affected device.
Solution:
Update to a fixed version (see the vendor's advisory for details).
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Terje Bless, Helse Nord IKT.
Changelog:
2006-08-25: Added CVE reference.
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