Endymion Mailman Default Configuration Vulnerability

BID:845

Info

Endymion Mailman Default Configuration Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 845
Class: Configuration Error
CVE: CVE-1999-0850
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Dec 02 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 01:56AM
Credit: First posted to BugTraq by jared <[email protected]> on December 2, 1999.
Vulnerable: Endymion Mailman Professional Edition 3.0.18
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Endymion Mailman Default Configuration Vulnerability

Endymion mailman is a commercial www email suite which is written in perl. When it is installed, by default it sets permissions which make it vulnerable to local compromise (666 for files, 777 for directories). Because of this it is possible for local, unprivileged users to read and write to files owned by any MailMan users as well as the webserver.

Exploit / POC

Endymion Mailman Default Configuration Vulnerability

See discussion.

Solution / Fix

Endymion Mailman Default Configuration Vulnerability

Solution:
Endymion does warn customers to change permissions on software. A fix for this is to change the permissions to 0600 for the files and 0700 for the directories.

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].

References

Endymion Mailman Default Configuration Vulnerability

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