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Cisco Hosting Solution Engine / User Registration Tool Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA19741
Release Date: 2006-04-20
Popularity: 5,692 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Cisco User Registration Tool 2.x
CiscoWorks Hosting Solution Engine 1.x

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Description:
Adam Pointon has reported a vulnerability in Cisco Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) and Cisco User Registration Tool (URT), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA19736

Solution:
Apply fixes.

Cisco URT:
Update to version 2.5.5(A1) for the URT appliance.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/urt-3des

Cisco HSE:
Apply HSE-PSIRT1 patch.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/1105-host-sol

Provided and/or discovered by:
Adam Pointon, Assurance.

The vendor also credits Mathieu Pepin.

Original Advisory:
Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20060419-priv.shtml

Other References:
SA19736:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19736/


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