Sun Solaris Management Console User Interface Insecure Account Creation Vulnerability

BID:12260

Info

Sun Solaris Management Console User Interface Insecure Account Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12260
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 13 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 13 2005 12:00AM
Credit: The individual or individuals responsible for the discovery of this issue are currently unknown; the vendor disclosed this issue.
Vulnerable: Sun Solaris 9_x86
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 8_x86
Sun Solaris 8_sparc
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Sun Solaris Management Console User Interface Insecure Account Creation Vulnerability

An insecure account creation vulnerability affects the Sun Solaris Management Console (SMC) Graphical User Interface. This issue is due to a failure of the application to securely create accounts that have no password specified.

An attacker may exploit this issue to authenticate to an affected system using a user account configured for password aging that was created without a password using the affected tool.

Exploit / POC

Sun Solaris Management Console User Interface Insecure Account Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

References

Sun Solaris Management Console User Interface Insecure Account Creation Vulnerability

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