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Cisco warns of flaws in ACS product

The flaws could allow attackers to crash two ACS products

By Paul Roberts
August 26, 2004 12:00 PM ET

IDG News Service - Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. is warning customers about security holes in two products that provide user authentication and authorization services for network devices such as firewalls and routers.
The company issued a security advisory yesterday identifying "multiple denial-of-service- and authentication-related vulnerabilities" in two products: the Cisco Secure Access Control Server for Windows (Windows ACS) and Cisco Secure Access Control Server Solution Engine (Secure ACS). The vulnerabilities could allow attackers or malicious users to crash the ACS products or gain unauthorized access to network devices.
ACS products centralize user identity management for other Cisco products and management applications, allowing administrators to manage and enforce access policies that control who can log into a network.
Cisco found that both the Secure ACS and ACS Windows products stopped responding to new TCP connections after being flooded with TCP connections on Port 2002. The DoS condition hampered the ability of the ACS devices to process authentication requests and required the ACS devices to be rebooted to restore authentication services, Cisco said.
In other instances, Cisco found that, under certain circumstances attackers that faked (or "spoofed") the network address of a computer that is accessing the ACS administrative user interface could access that interface without being asked to log in first, Cisco said.
Cisco released product upgrades for ACS Windows Versions 3.2 and 3.3 and for the ACS Solution Engine. The company recommended that customers with service contracts obtain the updates using the Cisco Product Upgrade Tool or by contacting Cisco's technical assistance center.

Reprinted with permission from IDG.net. Story copyright 2010 International Data Group. All rights reserved.
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