Verax NMS Password Disclosure (CVE-2013-1631) I. BACKGROUND ---------------------- Verax NMS provides a service-oriented, unified management & monitoring of networks, applications and infrastructure enabling quick problem detection, root-cause analysis, reporting and automating recovery, reducing costs and shortening downtimes of IT service delivery. Source: http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/products/nms II. DESCRIPTION ---------------------- >From within the Verax NMS Console, users can navigate to monitored devices and perform predefined actions (NMSAction), such as repairing tables on a MySQL database or restarting services. When these actions are initiated, the AMF response from the application leaks the plaintext connection details to the client and may do so over an unencrypted connection. This behavior would allow an unprivileged user to recover sensitive connection details for arbitrary services and applications monitored by Verax NMS. III. AFFECTED PRODUCTS ---------------------- All versions of Verax NMS prior to 2.1.0 are vulnerable. IV. RECOMMENDATION ---------------------- Users should upgrade to version 2.1.0 of Verax NMS. V. CREDIT ---------------------- This vulnerability was discovered by Andrew Brooks. VI. REFERENCES ---------------------- CVE-2013-1631 http://download.veraxsystems.com/download/nms-2.1.0-release-notes.txt VII. TIMELINE ---------------------- 1/10/2013 - Vendor notified 1/11/2013 - Vendor acknowledges bug report 2/20/2013 - Vulnerability remediated and pushed to mainline