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Secunia Advisory SA19537

IBM Lotus Notes Insecure Default Directory Permissions
Secunia Advisory SA19537
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Release Date 2006-10-18
Last Update 2006-10-20
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
IBM Lotus Notes 6.x
IBM Lotus Notes 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-2454 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in IBM Lotus Notes, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate arbitrary files.

The problem is that Lotus Notes sets insecure default permissions (grants "Everyone" group "Full Control") on the "notes" directory and all child objects. This can be exploited to remove, manipulate, and replace any of the application's files.

The security issue is confirmed in versions 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 7.0.0, and 7.0.1.


Solution
Update to version 7.0.2.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-29/

IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21246773

Other references
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Deep Links
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