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Informix webdriver CGI Unauthenticated Database Access

This script is Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

FamilyCGI abuses
Nessus Plugin ID10592 (webdriver.nasl)
Bugtraq ID2166
CVE ID

Description:
Synopsis :

The remote web server contains a CGI script that may fail to restrict
access to an installed database.

Description :

The remote host may be running Informix Webdriver, a web-to-database
interface. If not configured properly, this CGI script may give an
unauthenticated attacker the ability to modify and even delete
databases on the remote host.

*** Nessus relied solely on the presence of this CGI
it did not
*** try to determine if the installed version is vulnerable to
*** that problem.

See also :

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-01/0002.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-01/0043.html

Solution :

Consult the product documentation to properly configure the script.

Risk factor :

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.1
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
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