Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC), which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Cisco Network Admission Control Directory Traversal Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46309
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-10-23
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Network Admission Control
(NAC), which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information.
Certain input passed to the management interface via the URL is not
properly verified before being used. This can be exploited to
disclose the contents of arbitrary files via directory traversal
sequences.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.8.x.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.9.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Nenad Stojanovski, Macedonian Telekom.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20111005-nac.shtml
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