bugtraq - Norman Internet Update Deamon sends cleartext license key on update

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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:00:42 +0200
From: Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer@...ewerk.de>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Norman Internet Update Deamon sends cleartext license key on update

I just discovered, that the linux norman internet update deamon
(niu) sends our corporate license key in cleartext over http when
the first update is triggered. Output of niu --trace shows

SelectNextValServer (1): first: 0
ExtractValServer: 0 from 'niuone.norman.no': Found 'niuone.norman.no'
sAuthUrl='niuone.norman.no/scripts/NIUSrv.dll?GetUpdateInfo?1$asdfa-asdfa-asdfa-

               asdfa-asdfa$000020022050205220702072208020822$5'(117)

asdfa-asdfa-asdfa-asdfa-asdfa is our key.

Norman confirmed the bug but did not provide a timeline for any updates.

Regards

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