Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > July 21 to 27, 2008

Overview

3 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 2 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 4 products from 4 vendors including Fedoraproject, Opensuse, Edgewall, and Storcentric. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm", "Open Redirect", and "Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information".

  • 3 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are related to weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten.
  • 3 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Fedoraproject has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

TOTAL
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CRITICAL RISK
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HIGH RISK
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MEDIUM RISK
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LOW RISK
VULNERABILITIES
REMOTELY
EXPLOITABLE
LOCALLY
EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

2 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2008-07-24 CVE-2008-3289 Storcentric Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability in Storcentric Retrospect Backup Client 7.5.116

EMC Dantz Retrospect Backup Client 7.5.116 sends the password hash in cleartext at an unspecified point, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted packet.
7.5
2008-07-22 CVE-2008-3188 Opensuse Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Opensuse 11.0

libxcrypt in SUSE openSUSE 11.0 uses the DES algorithm when the configuration specifies the MD5 algorithm, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute-force attacks against hashed passwords.
7.5

1 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2008-07-27 CVE-2008-2951 Edgewall
Fedoraproject 		Open Redirect vulnerability in multiple products

Open redirect vulnerability in the search script in Trac before 0.10.5 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the q parameter, possibly related to the quickjump function.
6.1

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS