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TITLE:
Centennial Discovery Insecure File Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25354

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25354/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Centennial Discovery 2006 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/13580/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in Centennial
Discovery, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

The problem is caused due to insecure default file permissions being
set on the "Discovery" directory. This can be exploited to gain
escalated privileges by placing malicious files or replacing e.g
certain DLL files in the directory.

The security issue is confirmed in Centennial Discovery 2006 Feature
Pack 1. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Reportedly, the vendor is working on a fix.

Grant only trusted users access to affected systems until a fix is
available.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Sven Krewitt, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-58/

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