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.
Platforms Affected:
- Lawson Software, Lawson Financials Suite 8.x
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Dec 02 2002 - 10:28:39 CST , Advisory: Lawson Financials RDBMS Insecurity at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-12/0009.html.
- Lawson Software Web site, Lawson Financials Suite at http://www.lawson.com/.
- 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.
Reported:
Dec 02, 2002
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