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TITLE:
RackTables Authentication Bypass Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33463

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
RackTables 0.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20967/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in RackTables, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error in the authentication
mechanism, which can be exploited to access the system as an
arbitrary user (except the administrator) by providing an empty
password.

Successful exploitation requires that LDAP user authentication is
used.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 0.16.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.16.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Igor Shishkin.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://racktables.org/trac/browser/tags/RackTables-0.16.6/ChangeLog

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