Advisory Details

November 20th, 2008

EMC Control Center SST_SENDFILE Remote File Retrieval Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2008-5420
CVSS SCORE
AFFECTED VENDORS	EMC
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Control Center
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to retrieve arbitrary files on systems with vulnerable installations of EMC Control Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the Master Agent service (msragent.exe) which listens by default on TCP port 10444. While processing SST_SENDFILE requests the service does not validate the requestor allowing any remote attacker to download arbitrary files.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Customers should upgrade to version 6.1 which contains the fix.
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2008-11-10 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2008-11-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Anonymous

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