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Secunia Advisory SA26030

Sun Java System Access Manager "message" Debug Level Password Disclosure
Secunia Advisory SA26030
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Release Date 2007-07-11
Last Update 2008-09-22
   
Popularity 6,875 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where Local system
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Software:
Sun Java System Access Manager 6.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Sun has acknowledged a security issue in Sun Java System Access Manager, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the application logging passwords in plain text if the ""com.iplanet.services.debug.level" property in "/etc/opt/SUNWam/config/AMConfig.properties" is set to "message". This can be exploited to gain information about the passwords of the managed users from the "/var/opt/SUNWam/debug/amAuth" file.


Solution
The vendor has released patches for certain affected products. See vendor advisory for details.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200386-1

Alternate/detailed remediation
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Deep Links
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