Sun Chilisoft 3.5.2/3.6 Installation privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Sun Chilisoft 3.5.2/3.6 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Installation. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2001-0632. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sun Chilisoft 3.5.2/3.6. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Installation. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Sun Chili!Soft 3.5.2 on Linux and 3.6 on AIX creates a default admin username and password in the default installation, which can allow a remote attacker to gain additional privileges.

The weakness was disclosed 08/22/2001 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2001-0632. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/05/2025). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 86092 (Sun Microsystems Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console Default Password Vulnerability).

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 databases at X-Force (6957) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-3412†). The entries VDB-17238 and VDB-17239 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Sun

Name

• Chilisoft

Version

• 3.5.2
• 3.6

License

• commercial

Support

• end of life (old version)

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com/sun/

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