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Tripwire Email Reporting Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA11763
Release Date: 2004-06-05
Last Update: 2004-06-08
Popularity: 8,728 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Open Source Tripwire 2.x
Tripwire 4.x (Commercial Versions)

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Paul Herman has discovered a vulnerability in Tripwire, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the "cPipedMailMessage::SendString()" function when generating email reports. This can be exploited by placing a file with a specially crafted filename containing format specifiers in a location being monitored by Tripwire.

Successful exploitation requires that Tripwire is configured to generate email reports with "sendmail" as MAILMETHOD.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* Tripwire (commercial version) 4.0.1 and prior
* Tripwire (open source version) 2.3.1 and prior

Change Page:
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