Advisory #: 42
Title: Vulnerability Report For Voyant Technologies Sonata Conferencing product
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2000-10-31
Download Site: http://www.voyanttechnology.com/
Vendor: Voyant Technologies.
Vendor Notified: 2000-10-13
Vendor Contact: vulnhelp@securityfocus.com
Description: Sonata is a teleconfrencing solution developed by Voyant Technologies. This advisory concerns the Sonata application server and bridge componet of the Sonata package. The application server is an Ultra Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.x as required by Voyant technologies. The bridge is an IBM PC running OS/2 Warp. These hosts are usually built in house by Voyant personnel and installed at customer locations by a field engineer.
Vulnerability:
Six vulnerabilities have been found in the application server host and Sonata package, they are categorized below: Reused default user accounts and passwords. Easily guessable passwords. Poor file permissions. Lack of host hardening. X console authentication has been disabled. Hard coded default passwords. Sonata v3.x on Solaris 2.x. Sonata bridge OS/2 Warp.
CVEID:
OSVDB:91319
Exploit Code:
  1. I. Application Server, Solaris 2.x
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  3. By using available default services on the host an attacker can enumerate accounts. Using this easily obtainable account information combined with poor password selection and weak file permissions a remote attacker can gain root access. The passwords guessed are the default for all installations of Sonata.
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  5. By default xhost authentication is disabled allowing a remote attacker to log key strokes and capture screen shots of the X console.
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  7. II. Bridging Server, OS/2 Warp.
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  9. These default passwords are also re-used on the bridging host (OS/2). Which has telnet enabled for remote administration.
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  11. I am not going to detail the exploit because the methods used to access these systems are only the most basic information gathering techniques one would use to audit a host.
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Screen Shots:
Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/voyant_technologies_sonata_vulnerabilities.html