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Lotus Domino administration databases

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks if Lotus Domino administration databases can be anonymously accessed

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

This script acertains if some default databases can be read
remotely.

An anonymous user can retrieve information from this
Lotus Domino server: users, databases, configuration
of servers (including operating system and hard
disk partitioning), logs of access to users (which
could expose sensitive data if GET html forms are used)..

This issues are discussed in 'Lotus White Paper:
A Guide to Developing Secure Domino Applications' (december 1999)
http://www.lotus.com/developers/devbase.nsf/articles/doc1999112200

Solution: verify all the ACLs for these databases and remove those not needed

Network Security Threat Level: Medium

Networks Security ID: 5101, 881

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2001 Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a

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