A Windows NT system's registry audit policy does not log an event success or failure for non-critical registry keys.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Windows Nt
A Windows NT system's registry audit policy does not log an event success or failure for security-critical registry keys.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Windows Nt
A Windows NT system's file audit policy does not log an event success or failure for non-critical files or directories.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Windows Nt
A router's configuration service or management interface (such as a web server or telnet) is configured to allow connections from arbitrary hosts.
Windows NT is not using a password filter utility, e.g. PASSFILT.DLL.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Windows Nt
A URL for a WWW directory allows auto-indexing, which provides a list of all files in that directory if it does not contain an index.html file.
rpc.admind in Solaris is not running in a secure mode.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Sun Solaris
A Sendmail alias allows input to be piped to a program.
An attacker can force a printer to print arbitrary documents (e.g. if the printer doesn't require a password) or to become disabled.
IIS has the #exec function enabled for Server Side Include (SSI) files.
A system-critical Windows NT file or directory has inappropriate permissions.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Windows Nt
A system-critical Unix file or directory has inappropriate permissions.
Two or more Unix accounts have the same UID.
A Unix account with a name other than "root" has UID 0, i.e. root privileges.
NFS exports system-critical data to the world, e.g. / or a password file.
Windows NT automatically logs in an administrator upon rebooting.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Windows Nt
A superfluous NFS server is running, but it is not importing or exporting any file systems.
An SSH server allows authentication through the .rhosts file.
A trust relationship exists between two Unix hosts.
Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is solely about a configuration that does not directly introduce security vulnerabilities, so it is more appropriate to cover under the Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE). Notes: the former description...
A system is operating in "promiscuous" mode which allows it to perform packet sniffing.
A router or firewall forwards packets that claim to come from IANA reserved or private addresses, e.g. 10.x.x.x, 127.x.x.x, 217.x.x.x, etc.
A router or firewall forwards external packets that claim to come from inside the network that the router/firewall is in front of.
The permissions for system-critical data in an anonymous FTP account are inappropriate. For example, the root directory is writeable by world, a real password file is obtainable, or executable commands such as "ls" can be overwritten.
ICMP echo (ping) is allowed from arbitrary hosts.
A system-critical NETBIOS/SMB share has inappropriate access control.
An unrestricted remote trust relationship for Unix systems has been set up, e.g. by using a + sign in /etc/hosts.equiv.
A mail server is explicitly configured to allow SMTP mail relay, which allows abuse by spammers.
Anonymous FTP is enabled.
A remote attacker can gain access to a file system using .. (dot dot) when accessing SMB shares.
Remote attackers can crash Lynx and Internet Explorer using an IMG tag with a large width parameter.
A remote attacker can sometimes identify the operating system of a host based on how it reacts to some IP or ICMP packets, using a tool such as nmap or queso.
An attacker can identify a CISCO device by sending a SYN packet to port 1999, which is for the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Cisco Router
A service or application has a backdoor password that was placed there by the developer.
IIS 4.0 and Apache log HTTP request methods, regardless of how long they are, allowing a remote attacker to hide the URL they really request.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Internet Information Server
A race condition in Linux 2.2.1 allows local users to read arbitrary memory from /proc files.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Linux Linux Kernel
The DCC server command in the Mirc 5.5 client doesn't filter characters from file names properly, allowing remote attackers to place a malicious file in a different location, possibly allowing the attacker to execute commands.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Khaled Mardam-Bey Mirc
In some instances of SSH 1.2.27 and 2.0.11 on Linux systems, SSH will allow users with expired accounts to login.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
SSH Ssh,
SSH Ssh2
The demo version of the Quakenbush NT Password Appraiser sends passwords across the network in plaintext.
A race condition in the BackWeb Polite Agent Protocol allows an attacker to spoof a BackWeb server.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Backweb Technologies Backweb Polite Agent Protocol
DPEC Online Courseware allows an attacker to change another user's password without knowing the original password.
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Sendmail 8.8.x and 8.9.2 by sending messages with a large number of headers.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Eric Allman Sendmail,
Eric Allman Sendmail
DataLynx suGuard trusts the PATH environment variable to execute the ps command, allowing local users to execute commands as root.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Datalynx Suguard
The Forms 2.0 ActiveX control (included with Visual Basic for Applications 5.0) can be used to read text from a user's clipboard when the user accesses documents with ActiveX content.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Office,
Microsoft Project,
Microsoft Outlook
... (+3)
Microsoft Access 97 stores a database password as plaintext in a foreign mdb, allowing access to data.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Fms Inc. Total Vb Sourcebook,
Microsoft Access
NetWare version of LaserFiche stores usernames and passwords unencrypted, and allows administrative changes without logging.
Local or remote users can force ControlIT 4.5 to reboot or force a user to log out, resulting in a denial of service.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Broadcom Controlit
In some NT web servers, appending a space at the end of a URL may allow attackers to read source code for active pages.
Denial of service in telnet from the Windows NT Resource Kit, by opening then immediately closing a connection.
AFFECTED_PRODUCTS:
Microsoft Windows Nt
The Java Web Server would allow remote users to obtain the source code for CGI programs.