SSH Tectia Manager restart privilege escalation
| ssh-tectia-restart-privilege-escalation (28561) |  High Risk |
Description:
SSH Tectia Manager could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges. Once the sshd process that uses the sshd binary has stopped, an attacker could create a malicious sshd binary that would be started with root privileges once the management agent restarts the sshd server.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5.6 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Complete |
| Integrity Impact: | Complete |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 4.1 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of SSH Tectia Manager (2.1.3 or later) or (2.20 or later), available from the SSH Communications Security Web site. See References.
References:
- SSH Communications Security Web site: SSH - Products - SSH Tectia Manager.
- SSH Company News August 23, 2006 : SSH Tectia Management Agent Process Execution Vulnerability.
- BID-19677: SSH Tectia Manager Agent Process Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-4316: SSH Tectia Management Agent 2.1.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by running a program called sshd, which is obtained from a process listing when the Restart action is selected from the Management server GUI, which causes the agent to locate the pathname of the user's program and restart it with root privileges.
- OSVDB ID: 28159: SSH Tectia Management Agent sshd Restart Local Privilege Escalation
- SA21559: SSH Tectia Management Agent Privilege Escalation
- SECTRACK ID: 1016744: SSH Tectia Manager Process Restart Flaw May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
Platforms Affected:
- HP HP-UX 11.00
- HP HP-UX 11i
- IBM AIX 4.3.3
- IBM AIX 5.1
- IBM AIX 5.2
- IBM AIX 5.3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
- RedHat Linux 7.3
- RedHat Linux 8.0
- RedHat Linux 9.0
- SSH Tectia Manager 2.1.2
- Sun Solaris 10 SPARC
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 9
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
- SUSE SuSE Linux 9.0
- SUSE SuSE Linux 9.1
- SUSE SuSE Linux 9.2
Reported:
Aug 23, 2006
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