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- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:35:45 -0500
- From: Trevor Gryffyn <tgryffyn@meetinghousetech.com>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Plaintext Password in Tractive's Remote Manager Software
-
- A pretty minor thing, but thought I'd bring it up anyway. I hope it hasn't
- already been reported.
-
-
- Software: Triactive's Remote Management Software
- Web Site: http://www.triactive.com/
-
- Software Description:
-
- Enables IS techs to remotely control (to a large degree, but not like
- pcAnywhere real-time control) a remote 95/98/NT machine. This includes
- viewing almost anything viewable as far as system configuration and settings
- go, browsing the system and execute programs via a forms based DOS utility,
- browsing the system and whatever it can view via Network Neighborhood (with
- that machine's permissions) and rename, delete, remotely launch, edit,
- download, etc files. It even allows you to view and modify the registry of
- the machine that it's running on.
-
-
- Problem Description:
-
- There are two forms of authentication that this program can use. Either
- authenticate off of an NT machine, Basic (clear text) or Challenge and
- Response (for 95 you have to have USER-LEVEL ACCESS CONTROL and a Domain
- configured in your Network settings for this to work) or by way of a
- username and password that you set in the program (on a 95 machine, if it's
- set for Share-Level Access control).
-
- It *will* warn you that it's best to use the User-Level access control, but
- if you chose not to, it stores the Username and Password that you define in
- plaintext under:
-
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\TriActive\Remote Manager\Username
- and..
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\TriActive\Remote Manager\Password
-
-
-
- I havn't had the opportunity to try this product on an NT machine yet to see
- if it does anything bad on that front, but there's a possibility.
-
- On the surface this is pretty minor, but if someone could gain access to
- your registry then you've just opened up a gateway to do a great deal of
- damage to your machine or be used to some degree to bounce off of your
- machine to do damage elsewhere especially coupled with other products out
- there.
-
-
-
- Trevor Gryffyn
- Meetinghouse Technologies
- tgryffyn@meetinghousetech.com
-
-