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BlueCat Networks Adonis CLI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA26495
Release Date: 2007-08-17
Last Update: 2008-06-09
Popularity: 6,564 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:BlueCat Networks Adonis

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-4390


Description:
forloop has reported a vulnerability in BlueCat Networks Adonis, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain elevated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper checking of arguments passed to the "set host-name" command from the Command Line Interface (CLI) (reportedly more commands are affected). This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the root user.

NOTE: The CLI is accessible only by users with administrator login capabilities.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.0.2.8. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 5.0.5.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Discovered by forloop of Template Security.

Changelog:
2007-08-22: Added CVE reference.
2008-06-09: Updated "Solution" section.


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