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OCS Inventory Unified Agent Insecure Module Search Path
Secunia Advisory: SA35727
Release Date: 2009-07-09
Popularity: 573 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:OCS Inventory 3.x
Ocsinventory-Agent (Unified Agent) 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OCS Inventory, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the agent using an insecure module search path, which can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary Perl code with the privileges of the agent by placing a malicious module within the search path.

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