Secunia Security Advisory - A weakness has been reported in Cosminexus Application Server, which can potentially allow a server process to perform actions with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Hitachi Cosminexus Application Server Incorrect Handling of Group
Permissions
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26589
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26589/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
uCosminexus Application Server
http://secunia.com/product/13819/
uCosminexus Service Platform
http://secunia.com/product/13823/
Electronic Form Workflow 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/15447/
Cosminexus Application Server 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/15445/
DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Cosminexus Application Server, which
can potentially allow a server process to perform actions with
escalated privileges.
The problem is that the group permissions of another user can be
granted to the server process when a logical J2EE server or a logical
user server is started from Cosminexus Manager.
SOLUTION:
Update to the latest versions (please see vendor advisory for
details).
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hitachi-support.com/security_e/vuls_e/HS07-025_e/index-e.html
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