CVE-2008-5420 (GCVE-0-2008-5420)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-10 13:33 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:56
VLAI
Summary
The SAN Manager Master Agent service (aka msragent.exe) in EMC Control Center before 6.1 does not properly authenticate SST_SENDFILE requests, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-076/ x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32392 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/32801 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3220 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021263 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://osvdb.org/50032 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4709 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498556/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2008-11-20 00:00
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