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[OVSA20131108] OpenVAS Manager And OpenVAS Administrator Vulnerable To Partial Authentication Bypass
From: Tim Brown <timb () openvas org>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:53:48 +0000
Summary It has been identified that OpenVAS Manager and OpenVAS Administrator are vulnerable to authentication bypass due to an incorrect state assignment when processing OMP and OAP requests. It has been identified that this vulnerability may allow unauthorised access to OpenVAS Manager and OpenVAS Administrator on vulnerable systems. CVE-2013-6765 has been assigned to this vulnerability in Manager and CVE-2013-6766 to the same vulnerability in Administrator. It should be noted that not all of the newly available commands are functional and that exploitation typically requires SSH access to the host on which the services are installed. Current Status As of the 8th November, the state of the vulnerabilities is believed to be as follows. Patches have been supplied by Greenbone Networks which it successfully resolves this vulnerability. New releases of both OpenVAS Manager and OpenVAS Administrator have also been created which incorporate these patches. Thanks OpenVAS would like to thank Antonio Sanchez Arago for his help in reporting the vulnerability and apologise to all concerned for the substantial delay in triaging his report. -- Tim Brown <mailto:timb () openvas org> <http://www.openvas.org>
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