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Groove Virtual Office sets insecure permissions on installation components

Vulnerability Note VU#443370

Original Release Date: 2005-05-19 | Last Revised: 2005-05-19

Overview

Groove Virtual Office installation sets insecure permissions on installation files and folders by default. As a result, an attacker could gain access to sensitive data.

Description

Groove Virtual Office provides a collaborative working environment that includes shared documents, databases, applications, and various other tools to facilitate communication and productivity. Groove Virtual Office is designed for the Microsoft Windows platform, thus the directories Groove installs are governed by the Windows NTFS directory permissions structure. There is a vulnerability in the permissions assigned to the Groove Virtual Office client installation directories. Specifically, the installation directories are accessible by members of the EVERYONE group by default.

Note that authentication information and user data are stored in these directories.

Impact

An attacker may be able to modify or view sensitive system information.

Solution

Update
This vulnerability is addressed in Groove Virtual Office 3.1 build 2338, 3.1a build 2364, and Groove Workspace Version 2.5n build 1871. These updates are available from

http://www.groove.net/update

and

http://www.groove.net/archive.

Vendor Information

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Updated:  May 19, 2005

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

Analysis has identified security vulnerability in older versions of the Groove Virtual Office client software that warranted immediate attention to correct. Although we are not aware of any incidents leveraging the vulnerability, we have responded to address issues that have been identified.

A security update to Groove Virtual Office v3.1 was posted several weeks ago as build 2338. More recently, a maintenance release to Groove Virtual Office, v3.1a build 2364, was posted on the website on April 27th, 2005. This latest release contains all of the security updates plus some addition al maintenance items. If you are running a release prior to 2338 of Groove Virtual Office, we encourage you to update immediately to the latest releases of Groove Virtual Office at:

http://www.groove.net/update

An update to the previous major release, Groove Workspace Version 2.5n build 1871, is also available. We recommend that all users of Groove Workspace Version 2 update to this version of the
software at:

http://www.groove.net/archive

If you use a customized enterprise installation kit for deployment of the Groove software in your organization, the kits for these versions can be obtained from your Groove sales representative or client manager.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

US-CERT has no additional comments at this time.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us email.


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Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported by US-CERT.

This document was written by Jeff Gennari.

Other Information

CVE IDs: None
Severity Metric: 3.06
Date Public: 2005-05-19
Date First Published: 2005-05-19
Date Last Updated: 2005-05-19 15:43 UTC
Document Revision: 73

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