HP CIFS 9000 Arbitrary Password Changing Vulnerability

BID:3250

Info

HP CIFS 9000 Arbitrary Password Changing Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3250
Class: Environment Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 29 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 29 2001 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was announced in a HP Security Advisory on August 29, 2001.
Vulnerable: HP CIFS/9000 Server A.01.07
HP CIFS/9000 Server A.01.06
- HP HP-UX 11.11
- HP HP-UX 11.0
HP CIFS/9000 Server A.01.05
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

HP CIFS 9000 Arbitrary Password Changing Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

HP CIFS 9000 Arbitrary Password Changing Vulnerability

Solution:
HP has advised customers to check their CIFS configuration files, and ensure the passwd program looks like the following:

passwd program = /bin/passwd %u

References

HP CIFS 9000 Arbitrary Password Changing Vulnerability

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