Re: FSA Notice on: Exploitation of Ellucian Banner System Vulnerability - update

[Mahmud Rahman <mrahman () MILLS EDU>]

What they did was not fair to Ellucian or to schools using Banner. There
was a lot of misinformation spread in the news.


Mahmud Rahman MFA '04
Director of Systems and Banner Services, ITS
Mills College, Oakland CA
(510)430-2257
mrahman () mills edu


On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 7:33 AM Jim A. Bole <jbole () stevenson edu> wrote:

> Josh,
>
> I see that FSA has acknowledged that Ellucian vulnerabilities were not
> exploited:
>
>
> https://ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/080619ITSecurAlertExploitationEllucianBannerSysVulnerabilityUpdate1.html
>
> Did FSA provide any explanation as to how they made their initial
> determination and, more importantly, what they are doing to prevent this
> type of false attribution in the future?
>
> Jim Bole
> Director of Information Security
> Stevenson University
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>
>
> From: Sosnin, Josh <Josh.Sosnin () ELLUCIAN COM>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 9:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [EXT]: [SECURITY] FSA Notice on: Exploitation of Ellucian
> Banner System Vulnerability
>
>
> We have posted an update on this issue at the link below.  Please feel
> free to reach out to me with any questions.
>
> https://www.ellucian.com/news/ellucian-banner-system-vulnerability-update
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
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> Subject: [EXT]: [SECURITY] FSA Notice on: Exploitation of Ellucian Banner
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> **External Email**
> If your institution is running Banner Web Tailor versions 8.8.3, 8.8.4,
> and 8.9 and/or Banner Enterprise Identity Services versions 8.3, 8.3.1,
> 8.3.2, and 8.4, Fed Student Aid has a security alert about a vulnerability
> needing patching if it's not patched already:
> https://ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/071719ITSecurAlertExploitationEllucianBannerSysVulnerability.html
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