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Secunia Advisory SA25537

Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Scheduler Service Authentication Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA25537
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Release Date 2007-06-04
Last Update 2007-06-05
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From local network
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
   
Software:
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-2279 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
TippingPoint has reported a vulnerability in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the Scheduler Service (VxSchedService.exe) and can be exploited to bypass the built-in authentication in the management console and add, delete, and modify scheduled runs via a specially crafted request.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability affects Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows version 5.0.

Solution
Apply patch.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Aaron Portnoy, TippingPoint Security Research Team.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.06.01.html

TippingPoint:
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-07-08

Deep Links
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