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TITLE:
HP Enterprise Discovery Unspecified Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31616

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31616/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
HP Enterprise Discovery 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/19668/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in HP Enterprise Discovery, which
can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which can be
exploited to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in HP Enterprise Discovery v2.0,
v2.0.1, v2.0.2, v2.0.3, v2.0.4, v2.1, v2.1.1, v2.1.2, v2.1.3, v2.20,
v2.21, v2.22, v2.50, v2.51, and v2.52 running on Windows.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches (please see vendor advisory for details).
http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/patches

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
HPSBMA02363 SSRT080106:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01508161

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