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Numara Asset Manager Insecure File Permissions

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Release Date:  2007-07-23    Views:  8,248

Secunia Advisory SA25379

Where:

Local system

Impact:

Manipulation of data, Privilege escalation,

Solution Status:

Unpatched

CVE Reference(s):

Description


Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in Numara Asset Manager, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The problem is caused due to insecure default file permissions being set on the "Asset Manager" directory. This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges by placing malicious files or replacing files e.g certain DLL files in the directory.

This is related to:
SA25354

The security issue is confirmed in version 8.0. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems until a fix is available.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Sven Krewitt, Secunia Research.

Original Advisory:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-60/

Deep Links:
Links available to Secunia VIM customers

Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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