full-disclosure - H-Sphere

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Date: Mon May  9 16:12:14 2005
From: kf_lists at digitalmunition.com (KF (lists))
Subject: H-Sphere

In some cases the unix hsphere installer leaves the user unixtest with a 
pass of unixtest1 and ftptest with a pass of ftptest1 laying behind. 
These accounts usually have a normal shell access.

This software is NOT very fun to work with from an admin standpoint!

-KF

Morning Wood wrote:

>------------------------------------------------------------
>       - EXPL-A-2005-007 exploitlabs.com Advisory 036 -
>------------------------------------------------------------
>                      - H-Sphere -
>
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>AFFECTED PRODUCTS
>=================
>H-Sphere Winbox
>
>Positive Software Corporation
>https://www.psoft.net
>
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>
>OVERVIEW
>========
>H-Sphere is a scalable multiserver web hosting solution.
> It has many advanced features and a sophisticated billing
> system to automate and improve your web hosting tasks.
> H-Sphere was designed to work on many servers and can be
> scaled by adding more web, mail, database, and DNS servers
> without any downtime. It provides a simple, easy-to-use web
> interface that can be maintained from any computer with
> internet connection. H-Sphere was written in Java and works
> with any SQL-compliant database.
>
>
>
>
>DETAILS
>=======
>1. local user/pass information disclosure
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>
>
>Item 1
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>While performing administration duties for domain management,
>HSPHERE writes log information containing domain information
>and user/password combinations.
>
>C:\HSphere.NET\log
>
>action.log <--- stores user/pass
>resources.log <--- stores user/pass
>
>example:
>[0/00/2005 0:00:00 AM] Thread: 0000; Requested method "account.update" with
>parameters resourcename=account, username=theuser, password=thepassword
>
>
>on windows machines running HSPHERE, the default install
>does not restrict permissions to this folder, allowing
>less priveleged users to read account information.
>
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>
>SOLUTION:
>=========
>Psoft has been contacted and a patch released
>it is available at:
>
>http://www.psoft.net/misc/hsphere_winbox_security_update_passwd.html
>
>
>Credits
>=======
>This vulnerability was discovered and researched by
>Donnie Werner of exploitlabs
>
>Donnie Werner
>
>mail:   wood at exploitlabs.com
>mail:	morning_wood at zone-h.org
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