TITLE:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server Disclosure of User
Credentials

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13409

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13409/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
http://secunia.com/product/4268/

DESCRIPTION:
Alexander Fichman has reported a weakness in Microsoft Office
SharePoint Portal Server 2003, which may disclose sensitive
information to malicious, local users on the system.

The weakness is caused due to an error when installing SPS components
using a user account with a password containing a leading dash. This
causes the installation to fail and includes the password (without
the leading dash) in an error message, which is saved to
"%windir%\temp\STSADM.log-setup_[date] [time].log".

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to a affected systems.

Don't use passwords containing a leading dash.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alexander Fichman

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