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Secunia Advisory SA8820

Venturi Client acts as proxy

Secunia Advisory

SA8820

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Release Date

2003-05-21

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less 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:

Venturi Client 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Venturi Client allowing malicious people to relay traffic using the host running Venturi Client.

The problem is that the Venturi Client software acts as a multi protocol proxy server and by default accepts connections from anyone to anywhere. This could be exploited to relay email for spamming.

Version 2.1 has been reported as vulnerable.

Solution
Version 2.2 is not vulnerable:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Josh Steinhurst

Deep Links
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Secunia Advisory SA8820

Venturi Client acts as proxy

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