[Full-Disclosure] Frontpage Extensions Remote Command Execution

Ricky Blaikie ricky.blaikie at servercity.co.uk
Wed Nov 12 23:54:42 GMT 2003


> > Thus spake mattmurphy at kc.rr.com (mattmurphy at kc.rr.com) [12/11/03 14:41]:
> >> bulletin.  A decent admin would configure FPSE such that this flaw is a
> >> non-issue.  This is because no ordinary user has a reason to be
accessing
> >> FPSE's files.  If FPSE is secured, this means that an attacker is
getting
> >> their own privileges back.

Why should a decent sys-admin have to perform this additional configuration?
If the list of vuln's that an admin has to deal with keeps growing, when
will sysad workload reach saturation point ?

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