Cobalt RaQ4 Administrative Interface Command Execution Vulnerability

Risk
High

Date Discovered
12-05-2002

Description
The RaQ4 is a server appliance distributed and maintained by Sun Microsystems.

A vulnerability has been reported in the web administration interface of the RaQ4. It is possible for a remote attacker to execute commands. By passing malicious email parameter to the vulnerable CGI script, commands are carried out in the security context of the administration server.

This vulnerability only affects RaQ4 servers that have installed the RaQ4 hardening package.

Components Affected
Cobalt RaQ 4.0

Recommendations
Block external access at the network boundary, unless service is required by external parties.
Filter untrusted network traffic to RaQ4 administrative ports at border routers and network firewalls.

Disable any unneccessary default services.
Systems not requiring web administration capabilities should not run web administration servers.

The vendor has reportedly fixed this issue in package RaQ4-en-Security-2.0.1-SHP_REM.pkg. This has not been confirmed by the vendor.

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: vuldb@securityfocus.com .
Cobalt RaQ 4.0:

References
Source: Cobalt RaQ4 Remote root exploit
URL: msg://bugtraq/Pine.LNX.4.33.0212051336470.12790-200000@bespin.org

Credits
Vulnerability discovery credited to grazer@digit-labs.org.

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