TITLE: Cisco CS-MARS Undocumented Root Account Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA18424 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/18424/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: Local system OPERATING SYSTEM: Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) 4.x http://secunia.com/product/6780/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to CS-MARS appliances being shipped with a default password for an undocumented administrative root account that is intended for debugging purposes. This can be exploited by malicious users to gain root privileges using the undocumented "expert" command. The password for the account reportedly cannot be changed. Successful exploitation requires logon to the administration command line interface with e.g. the "pnadmin" account. The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 4.1.3. SOLUTION: Update to version 4.1.3 or later and use the "passwd expert" command to change the root password. http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cs-mars?psrtdcat20e2 PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by vendor. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060111-mars.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------