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remstats Insecure Temporary File Creation and Arbitrary Command Execution
Secunia Advisory: SA14810
Release Date: 2005-04-05
Popularity: 6,205 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:remstats 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Jens Steube has reported two vulnerabilities in remstats, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges, and by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Temporary files are created insecurely when processing uptime data. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running remstats.

2) An input validation error in the remoteping service can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands.

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