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TITLE:
CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor Arbitrary Command
Execution

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29376

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29376/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM) 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/11850/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in CiscoWorks Internetwork
Performance Monitor, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application binding a command
shell to a random port on the affected system. This can be exploited
to execute arbitrary commands with "casuser" privileges on Solaris,
and with SYSTEM privileges on Windows.

The vulnerability affects version 2.6 on Windows and Solaris.

SOLUTION:
Apply vendor patch.

IPM version 2.6 CSCsj06260:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ipm-sol?psrtdcat20e2

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits a Cisco customer.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080313-ipm.shtml

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