Lawson Financials Suite stores world readable authentication information
| lawson-financials-insecure-authentication (10742) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Lawson Financials Suite, when configured to use Oracle database authentication with an Oracle Database stores the username and password in a world readable file by default. This could allow any user with shell access to the system running Lawson Financials Suite to recover the database username and password and gain full control over the backend database.
Note: This vulnerability may also occur when using the database authentication method instead of the operating system authentication method with other third-party database applications.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 6.1 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Lawson Financials Suite (9.0.0 or later), available from the Lawson Software Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Dec 02 2002 - 10:28:39 CST : Advisory: Lawson Financials RDBMS Insecurity .
- Lawson Software Web site: Lawson Financials Suite.
- BID-6293: Lawson Financials Account Credentials World Accessible Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-2301: Lawson Financials 8.0, when configured to use a third party relational database, stores usernames and passwords in a world-readable file, which allows local users to read the passwords and log onto the database.
Platforms Affected:
- Lawson Software Lawson Financials Suite 8.x
Reported:
Dec 02, 2002
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