Overview
The Avaya Argent Office does not properly enforce SNMP community string values, resulting in a weakened access control mechanism.
Description
The Avaya Argent Office does not properly enforce SNMP community string values. It will accept a null string (i.e. ) as a valid community string and will also accept partial strings that match the correct community string. The acceptance of partial strings allows an attacker to conduct brute force password attacks against the agent. According to reports, this vulnerability is only exploitable via an internal interface. |
Impact
This vulnerability reduces the effectiveness of the access control provided by an SNMP community string. |
Solution
The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
This vulnerability was reported to the Bugtraq mailing list on 08/07/2001 by Jacek Lipkowski.
This document was written by Jeffrey P. Lanza.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 0.98 |
| Date Public: | 2001-08-07 |
| Date First Published: | 2003-10-30 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2003-10-30 21:51 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 10 |