J-Security Center

Title: Hot Area Banner Rotation 01 and Dream Catcher Advertiser World-Readable Password Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

Hot Area Banner Rotation 01 and Dream Catcher Advertiser stores its administrative password in the file adpassword.txt. Although the password is DES encrypted, it is world-readable by any remote user. Thus, a password cracker could be used by a malicious to decrypt it. By default, the password is 'admin' and appears DES encrypted as 'aaLR8vE.jjhss' in adpassword.txt.

Administrative controls include editing, removing, and adding of advertisement banners.

Affected Products:

  • Hot Area Banner Rotation 1.0.0

References:

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