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 Remedy Action Request System User Enumeration
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Davide Del Vecchio Adv#11 

Discovered in: 08/01/2007 

Version affected: Remedy Action Request System 5.01.02 Patch 1267.
The same vulnerable code could be present in other versions. 

Reference: http://www.alighieri.org/advisories/advisory-remedy50102.txt 

Software description: 

 From BMC Software website:
 "Remedy Action Request System 5.01.02 provides a consolidated Service
 Process Management platform for automating and managing Service
 Management business processes."
 

The problem: 

 During user login phase, it is possible to enumerate existing users
 examining the error messages provided by the software. 

 Suppling a non-existing user the error message is: 


 ARERR [612] No such user is registered with this server
	user: test,  server: 10.10.10.11 

 Unable to successfully log in to any server. 


 Suppling an existing user the error message is: 


 ARERR [329] Invalid password for an existing user
	user: user,  server: 10.10.10.11 

 Unable to successfully log in to any server. 


Solution: 

 Vendor has been contacted 3 times with no answer. 


Credits: 

 Davide Del Vecchio would like to thank his family and all
 the people supporting him and his research.
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Please send suggestions, updates, and comments to:
Davide Del Vecchio "Dante Alighieri" - dante at alighieri dot org
http://www.alighieri.org ~ http://legaest.blogspot.com