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TITLE:
Akamai Red Swoosh Client Cross-Site Request Forgery

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30135

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30135/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Akamai Red Swoosh Client
http://secunia.com/product/18627/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Akamai Red Swoosh
client, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site request forgery attacks and compromise a user's system.

The Red Swoosh client implements a web server listening on port
9421/TCP on the loopback interface for management commands.
Authorisation based on the HTTP "referer" header can be bypassed to
initiate arbitrary URLs to be downloaded and executed.

The Red Swoosh client can be installed manually by visiting the
Akamai website. However, it may also be silently installed by the
Akamai Download Manager.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3333.

Windows:
http://www.akapult.net/install/bin/rswin_3333.dll

MacOS:
http://www.akapult.net/install/bin/rsmac_3333

Linux:
http://www.akapult.net/install/bin/rslin_3333

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-19/

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