Title : Net-SNMP HMAC Authentication SNMPv3 Packets Spoofing VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1787 CVE ID : CVE-2008-0960 CWE ID : CWE-287
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-06-11
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Net-SNMP, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the implementation of SNMPv3 that does not proprly validate user-supplied packets, which may allow a shortened HMAC code in the authenticator field to authenticate to an agent or a trap daemon using a valid username and a minimum HMAC of 1 byte.
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