3com Total Control Netserver Card 3.6.22 Filter privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in 3com Total Control Netserver Card 3.6.22. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Filter Handler. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-1389. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in 3com Total Control Netserver Card 3.6.22. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Filter Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

US Robotics/3Com Total Control Chassis with Frame Relay between 3.6.22 and 3.7.24 does not properly enforce access filters when the "set host prompt" setting is made for a port, which allows attackers to bypass restrictions by providing the hostname twice at the "host: " prompt.

The weakness was disclosed 05/11/1998 by Jason Downs as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-1389. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 99†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: 3com.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Jason Downs
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-1389 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-1389
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-14132
SecurityFocus: 99 - 3com Total Control Filter Bypass Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 06/19/2014 15:22
Updated: 04/17/2026 11:58
Changes: 06/19/2014 15:22 (38), 04/03/2019 20:08 (13), 04/17/2026 11:58 (16)
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