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FYI - Sesame Vulnerability (oops)
Apr 29th, 2004 at 1:49pm
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Hey Everyone, I am part of a mailing group taht posts vulnerabilities and one came up for sesame. Sounds like its been fixed with v1.0.1


TITLE:
Sesame Unauthorised User Repository Access Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11497

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11497/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Exposure of system information, Exposure of
sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sesame 1.0.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Sesame, which can be exploited
by malicious, anonymous users to access other user's repositories.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
servlets. The issue reportedly surfaced on Tomcat 5, which reuses
threads to handle requests.

Successful exploitation grants a user full access to the repository
of a logged in user.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.1.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46509

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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Re: FYI - Sesame Vulnerability
Reply #1 - Apr 29th, 2004 at 1:58pm
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That's interesting, but it's not us.  Grin

There is more than one thing called "Sesame". If you follow the Sourceforge link posted inthe advisory and read about the 'Sesame' in question, you will see that is some other project.
  

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TRe: FYI - Sesame Vulnerability
Reply #2 - Apr 29th, 2004 at 2:00pm
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Oops I didn't notice that. My bad. The error did seem a little odd.
  
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