Security Advisory 2012-09-13

Version 16.1 by Sean Hetherington on 2012/09/17 11:17

 

This advisory discloses security vulnerabilities that we have found in the iSymphony Server component.

  • Customers who have downloaded and installed iSymphony should implement OS-based firewalling to their existing iSymphony installations to fix this vulnerability.  

i9 Technologies is committed to improving product security and an update will be posted which addresses this issue.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this advisory, please raise a support request at http://www.getisymphony.com/support.

 

Security Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability

Severity

MEDIUM - HIGH

Risk Assessment

iSymphony Server CLI connection on TCP port 50001 does not have IP/Subnet based permission schema.  If your iSymphony Server installation's TCP port 50001 is accessible via a network connection and not firewalled, the CLI may be subject to malicious attackers, or internal organization information may be obtained from telnet based usage of this port. 

Vulnerability

iSymphony does not provide a mechanism implementing IP based permissions allowing for selective source-address connections to the iSymphony Command Line Interface.

Fix

Utilize IPTables / IPChains (Linux), IPFW (BSD), 3rd Party Firewall implementation or appliance to effect firewalling based filtering prohibiting access to TCP Port 50001 on machine hosting the iSymphony Server component.