Re: Attacking TACACS

["dcdave" <dcdave () att net>]

There are many known attacks for Cisco equipment, running TACACS or not -
try looking in security focus archives for CISCO attacks - that's often what
I do if I get caught out somewhere without my own tools...
Dave Druitt
CSO Infosec Group
703 626 6516
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Klingler" <whitehatguru () gmail com>
To: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:38 PM
Subject: Attacking TACACS


> Guys,
>       I am working on a penetration test which includes some cisco
> equipment.  On this particular one they have a system with UDP ports
> 49, 67, 123 open.  Nmap recognizes the ports as being for TACACS,
> DHCP, and NTP.  The security implications of the DHCP and NTP I
> understand already, but I don't have any experience with the TACACS
> portion.  I haven't found any information on google about attacking
> TACACS directly.  Anyone else out there run into this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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