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TITLE:
Cisco Security Manager Security Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33633

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33633/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Cisco Security Manager (CSM) 3.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18842/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Security Manager, which
can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to the IPS Event Viewer (IEV) opening
several TCP ports on the client and server upon execution. This can
potentially be exploited to gain access to the IEV MySQL database or
IEV server via the open ports on the server and  e.g. add, delete, or
modify devices added to the IEV.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the IPS
Event Viewer service is enabled.

This vulnerability is reported in versions 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.2, and
3.2.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version. Please see vendor advisory for a patch
matrix.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
cisco-sa-20090121-csm:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080a6192a.shtml

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