Title: Standard & Poor's ComStock Machine Vulnerabilities
Severity: CRITICAL
Description:
Numerous vulnerabilities exist in the ComStock product, as sold by Standard & Poor's. ComStock is based on the RedHat 5.1 distribution, and contains many of the vulnerabilities found in the 5.1 distribution. In addition, it contains numerous accounts with weak, or nonexistent passwords.
The ComStock MultiCSP machine is intended to provide a realtime stock quote stream. It runs a proprietary service called 'mcsp' to provide this service. These machines acquire their data via a leased line, or other dedicated data connection. They used reserved address space. However, no attempt is made to prevent these ComStock machines from being used to compromise other machines on the private network. In addition, the routers utilized on the private network these machines communicate over are internet-accessible.
Affected Products:
- Standard & Poors ComStock 4.2.4
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