Centennial Discovery Discovery directory privilege escalation
| centennial-discovery-privilege-escalation (35562) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Centennial Discovery could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by insecure permissions on the Discovery directory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to modify or create files and gain elevated privileges.
Platforms Affected:
- Centennial Software, Centennial Discovery 2006 Feature Pack 1
Remedy:
No remedy available as of June 27, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
References:
- Centennial Discovery Web site, IT Asset Management, Hardware and Software Audit - Centennial Discovery- Centennial Software at http://www.centennial-software.com/products/discovery/.
- Secunia Research Advisory 2007-58, Centennial Discovery Insecure File Permissions at http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-58/advisory.
- BID-25000: Discovery and Asset Manager Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-2950: Centennial Discovery 2006 Feature Pack 1, which is used by (1) Numara Asset Manager 8.0 and (2) Symantec Discovery 6.5, uses insecure permissions on certain directories, which allows local users to gain privileges.
- SA25354: Centennial Discovery Insecure File Permissions
- SA25374: Symantec Discovery Insecure File Permissions
- SA25379: Numara Asset Manager Insecure File Permissions
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-2599: Centennial Discovery Insecure File Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Issue
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-2600: Symantec Discovery Insecure File Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Issue
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-2603: Numara Asset Manager Insecure File Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Issue
Reported:
Jul 23, 2007
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