Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in CS-MARS, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and malicious people to gain knowledge of system information and compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Insecure exposure of the JMX console in the included JBoss web application server (version 3.2.7) can be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the CS-MARS administrator.

2) The included JBoss web application server is also affected by an information disclosure weakness.

For more information:
SA15746

3) The CLI contains several unspecified vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by authenticated administrative users to execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 4.2.1.

CS-MARS also ships with an Oracle database containing several default Oracle accounts with well-known passwords.

Solution
Update to version 4.2.1 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
1+2) Jon Hart
3) Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060719-mars.shtml

Other references
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Deep Links
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