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Vulnerability Assessment Details

Cobalt siteUserMod cgi

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Searches for the existence of /.cobalt/siteUserMod/siteUserMod.cgi

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment
The Cobalt 'siteUserMod' CGI is installed.
Older versions of this CGI permit any user to change the
administrator password.

Make sure you are running the latest version.

Solution :

RaQ 1 Users, download :
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/
pub/experimental/security/siteUserMod/RaQ1-Security-3.6.pkg

RaQ 2 Users, download :
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/
pub/experimental/security/siteUserMod/RaQ2-Security-2.94.pkg

RaQ 3 Users, download :
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/
pub/experimental/security/siteUserMod/RaQ3-Security-2.2.pkg

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 951

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 1999 Renaud Deraison

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