A vulnerability was found in Websense Enterpise 6.3.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-255. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

The Websense Reporter Module in Websense Enterprise 6.3.2 stores the SQL database system administrator password in plaintext in CreateDbInstall.log, which allows local users to gain privileges to the database.

The weakness was presented 10/21/2008 (Website). The advisory is available at zebux.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-4646 since 10/21/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1552 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Websense

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• Enterpise

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• 6.3.2

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• commercial

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