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TIBCO Hawk "tibhawkhma" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20431
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Release Date:
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2006-06-06
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Last Update:
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2006-06-08
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Popularity:
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4,812 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | TIBCO Hawk 4.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2829
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in TIBCO Hawk, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the configuration interface of the Hawk Monitoring Agent. This can be exploited by a local user to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
Successful exploitation requires that the user is able to modify the configuration of the TIBCO Hawk HMA (tibhawkhma) executable.
The vulnerability has been reported in TIBCO Hawk versions prior to 4.6.1 and in TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA) versions prior to 5.4.
Solution:
Update to TIBCO Hawk to version 4.6.1 or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
Changelog:
2006-06-08: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.tibco.com/resources/mk/hawk_security_advisory.txt
Other References:
US-CERT VU#620516:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/620516
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