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Re: Cisco IOS Vulnerability


From: <up () 3 am>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:02:42 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Larry Diffey wrote:

CERT and Cisco have issued a warning about a vulnerability in the
Cisco IOS starting at version 11.3 and affecting all later versions.

If your Cisco equipment is HTTP enabled and you're not using TACACS+
or RADIUS for authentication it is vulnerable to complete takeover.  
The hack is very simple.

Yeah, well who enables httpd on their Ciscos, anyway?  Wait a sec, the
Catalysts have this enabled by default...

James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up () 3 am                                                          http://3.am
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