Re: SNMP Scans

[MadHat <madhat () UNSPECIFIC COM>]

At 10:30 PM 3/12/2001 -0600, Omar Herrera wrote:
> H Carvey wrote:
> By the way, I found many NT proliant servers with this admin. tool
> installed, during an audit, were vulnerable. More precisely, the web
> server (some versions) on which this admin. tool runs allowed anyone to
> retrieve files from directories distinct from those on which the admin.
> tool files reside (well know vulnearbility in ancient versions of some
> web servers).
>
> Just try something like http://web.server.com:2301\..\..\..\windows\win.ini

Know issue for some time.  There is a patch for it, but last I checked, the
default install was still the buggy version.

http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid=282


> In the case of this audit, the problem was more complex because this
> administration  tool is installed by default in many Compaq's servers,
> the company who bought these servers were not familiar with Compaq
> admin. tools and the reseller who installed these servers just 'forgot'
> to tell the client about it. So they almost get these machines connected
> to the internet with wide open holes accessible from the outside.
>
> (Side note: as noted above, not all versions of the web server were
> vulnerable, I can't recall the specific version numbers but nessus
> detected the vulnerable servers easily, I suppose that any other decent
> vulnerability scanner, open source or commercial will detect this as well).
>
> Omar

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