A vulnerability has been found in Novell GroupWise (Groupware Software) (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file /servlet/webacc of the component WebAccess. The manipulation of the argument about with the input value webacc leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity.

The weakness was released 01/17/2005 by Marc Ruef with scip AG (Website). The advisory is shared at vuldb.com. The public release was coordinated with Novell. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Marc Ruef in URL and been published immediately after the advisory. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:/servlet/webacc it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at support.novell.com.Proper firewalling of Web Server Port is able to address this issue. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be patching the affected component.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 1020.

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• Novell

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• GroupWise

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• commercial

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• end of life

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