Technical Description

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM Tivoli Netcool/Webtop, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions.

The first issue is caused by an error when a user has logged into webtop as root and then logs out and back into webtop without closing the browser and logs in under a user with read only privileges, which allow the user to have root privileges.

The second vulnerability is caused by an error in Tomcat. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0488

Affected Products

IBM Tivoli Netcool/Webtop versions prior to 2.1.0.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.1.0.5 :
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24018932

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2690
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24018932
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ21888

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-09-29 : Initial release

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