A vulnerability has been identified in CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM), which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a design error where the application contains a process that causes a command shell to automatically be bound to a randomly selected TCP port, which could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands with "casuser" privileges on Solaris systems and with "SYSTEM" privileges on Windows systems.
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Vulnerability reported by a customer.
ChangeLog
2008-03-14 : Initial release
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