A vulnerability has been identified in Akamai Red Swoosh Client, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a design error in the web server (port 9421/TCP) on the loopback interface for management commands, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass authorisation based on the HTTP "referer" header and cause a malicious file to be download from an arbitrary URL and executed on a vulnerable system.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Dyon Balding (Secunia Research).
ChangeLog
2008-06-09 : Initial release
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