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[SA19741] Cisco Hosting Solution Engine / User Registration Tool Privilege Escalation

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 06:47:04 CDT

TITLE:
Cisco Hosting Solution Engine / User Registration Tool Privilege
Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19741

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19741/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Cisco User Registration Tool 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/9457/
CiscoWorks Hosting Solution Engine 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/2186/

DESCRIPTION:
Adam Pointon has reported a vulnerability in Cisco Hosting Solution
Engine (HSE) and Cisco User Registration Tool (URT), which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA19736

SOLUTION:
Apply fixes.

Cisco URT:
Update to version 2.5.5(A1) for the URT appliance.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/urt-3des

Cisco HSE:
Apply HSE-PSIRT1 patch.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/1105-host-sol

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Adam Pointon, Assurance.

The vendor also credits Mathieu Pepin.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20060419-priv.shtml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA19736:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19736/

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