TITLE:
Network Appliance Data ONTAP iSCSI Authentication Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17321

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17321/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Network Appliance Data ONTAP 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/2601/
Network Appliance Data ONTAP 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/5985/

DESCRIPTION:
Thomas H. Ptacek has reported a vulnerability in Network Appliance
Data ONTAP, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass
certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is cause due to an error in the handling of iSCSI
authentication requests. This can be exploited to bypass
authentication via a specially-crafted iSCSI client.

Successful exploitation allows the manipulation of data stored in
iSCSI-mapped LUNs on affected Network Appliance Filers.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 6.4, 6.5, and 7.0.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in version 7.0.2.
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Thomas H. Ptacek, Matasano Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.matasano.com/advisories/netapp-iSCSI.txt

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