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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1843

Original release date:03/22/2012

Last revised:11/06/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in saveRestore.htm on the Quantum Scalar i500 tape library with firmware before i7.0.3 (604G.GS00100), also distributed as the Dell ML6000 tape library with firmware before A20-00 (590G.GS00100), allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that execute Linux commands via the fileName parameter, related to a "command-injection vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 6.8

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Quantum Corporation (06/13/2012)

An authentication is required to exploit this issue. The vulnerability has never been exploited. However to make sure our customers are protected, all newly shipped versions of the product contain the update that fixes this issue. An official firmware release that fixes the vulnerability is also available for all existing customers. The customer data stored on tape cannot be exploited by this vulnerability.

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#MAPG-8NVRPY

Name: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8NVRPY

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8NVRPY

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#MAPG-8NNKN8

Name: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8NNKN8

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8NNKN8

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#913483

Name: VU#913483

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/913483

External Source: XF

Name: scalar-unspec-csrf(74161)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74161