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EMC Control Center SST_SENDFILE Remote File Retrieval Vulnerability

ZDI-08-076: November 20th, 2008

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Affected Vendors

Affected Products

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to retrieve arbitrary files on systems with vulnerable installations of EMC Control Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in the Master Agent service (msragent.exe) which listens by default on TCP port 10444. While processing SST_SENDFILE requests the service does not validate the requestor allowing any remote attacker to download arbitrary files.

Vendor Response

EMC states:

Customers should upgrade to version 6.1 which contains the fix.


Disclosure Timeline

    2008-11-10 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2008-11-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Anonymous