bugtraq - Resolution of Issue - Compaq Insight Manager

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Message-ID: <7CD77D0C2B0C6141A928C5F5DC97C4C00650E4@ukwtm201>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:21:59 +0100
From: "Brewis, Mark" <mark.brewis@....com>
To: "'bugtraq@...urityfocus.com'" <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Resolution of Issue - Compaq Insight Manager - related to Bugtraq
	 ID 2500

Following considerable investigations by the HP Team responsible for the
CIM Agents component in Compaq Insight Manager, it has been agreed that this
is not
an issue with CIM, and I am happy to state that this bugtraq post, regarding
ftp over CIM, should be withdrawn.

A combination of testing architecture, and the ability of Internet Explorer
to ignore any specific proxy settings entered in Tools > Internet Options >
Connections > LAN Settings > Proxy server if a connection cannot be made,
and to then attempt to connect to the target over the local LAN, caused a
false-positive result.

The post on http proxying is still valid.  All old, vulnerable versions of
CIM should be patched for the http proxy vulnerability, following the
recommendations from Compaq, or more preferably, updated for a far more
secure version of CIM.  All recent versions of CIM are not vulnerable to
this issue.

Many thanks to Chris Hibbard and the IM7 QA team for their efforts in
resolving this issue.

If anyone wants more information about this, feel free to drop me a line.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brewis, Mark 
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:40 PM
To: 'bugtraq@...urityfocus.com'
Subject: Compaq Insight Manager - related to Bugtraq ID 2500 

Another one out of the back catalogue, seen again today.

Version:

Compaq Insight Manager Version 5.0 or below

Issue:

The Proxy vulnerability identified in Bugtraq ID 2500, and the patch
produced by Compaq for that vuln. does not prevent ftp proxying.

On a host denying http proxying, it is possible to ftp over http to a third
party host, using CIM as the proxy.  You can't put or get (probably because
there isn't an ftp server on CIM to buffer the transfer), but you can
browse, allowing for a targeted attack.

Again, I talked to Compaq about this over a year ago, and they appeared to
work on the principle that the problem went away in the newest version of
CIM.  I'd forgotten about it until today, when I saw  a CIM/CMA installation
again.

Advice - keep upgrading and patching, or stop using CIM.

Mark Brewis

Security Consultant
EDS
Information Assurance Group
Wavendon Tower
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK17 8LX.

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