Portcullis Security Advisory 06-046

Portcullis Security Advisory

Vulnerable System:

Visionsoft Audit

Vulnerability Title:

The VSAOD server discloses its version.

Vulnerability discovery and development:

Portcullis Security Testing Services discovered this vulnerability during an
application assessment.
Further research was then carried out post assessment.

Credit For Discovery:

Tim Brown - Portcullis Computer Security Ltd.

Affected systems:

All known versions of Audit, this vulnerability was discovered for version
12.4.0.0.

Details:

On connecting to the remote VSAOD server, the version is disclosed:

server> Visionsoft Audit on Demand Service
server> Version: 12.4.0.0

In addition the version number can also be obtained as follows:

client> VER
server> 12.4.0.0

Impact:

An attacker could make use of the version information to identify vulnerable
versions of the VSAOD server.

Exploit:

Exploit code is not required.

Vendor Status:

Contacted [email protected]

e-mailed - 16th January 2007
e-mailed - 26th February 2007
e-mailed - 15th March 2007

Copyright:

Copyright Portcullis Computer Security Limited 2006, All rights reserved
worldwide.
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