Cisco Tac_Plus Accounting Directive Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

BID:4003

Info

Cisco Tac_Plus Accounting Directive Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4003
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2002-0225
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 31 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was announced by Kevin A. Nassery <[email protected]> via Bugtraq on January 30, 2002.
Vulnerable: Cisco tac_plus F4.0.4 alpha
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.4
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.3
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.2
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1.1
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.1
- HP HP-UX 11.11
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- HP HP-UX 10.20
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.5.2
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.5.1
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.5
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.3
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.2
- Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
- Slackware Linux 8.0
- Slackware Linux 7.1
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1 _x86
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- SuSE Linux 7.3 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.2 i386
- SuSE Linux 7.1 x86
- SuSE Linux 7.0 i386
Not Vulnerable: Devrim Seral TACACS+ v9
Devrim Seral TACACS+ v8

Discussion

Cisco Tac_Plus Accounting Directive Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

tac_plus is an open source, freely available implementation of a TACACS+ server. It was originally written by Cisco.

tac_plus creates accounting files insecurely. When tac_plus is started, it creates the file specified in the "account file =" configuration parameter with world-writable permissions. This could allow a local user to alter the contents, or entirely remove the accounting file.

Exploit / POC

Cisco Tac_Plus Accounting Directive Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to take advantage of this vulnerability.

Solution / Fix

Cisco Tac_Plus Accounting Directive Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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Cisco Tac_Plus Accounting Directive Insecure File Creation Vulnerability

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