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Apologies if this is off-topic -- however, I know Interchange is a popular vending system, and thought it would be in the best interests of anyone here to proactively fix their systems, lest customer data get leaked, ala Egghead.com. --mec ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Interchange-announce] Security advisory Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:20:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jon Jensen <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] A serious security vulnerability has been found in the default installation of the Interchange demo stores 'barry', 'basic', and 'construct' distributed in Interchange versions 4.5.3 through 4.6.3. Using a group login that had no password set by default, it is possible to log in to the back-end administration area and view and alter products, orders, and customer information. If you set up a store based on one of those demos and did not remove all default user and group accounts, you should immediately make the following change: In all installed catalog directories, as well as the catalog templates in the Interchange software directory, edit the products/access.asc file, changing this line: :backup<tab><tab>Backup to look like this: :backup<tab>*<tab>Backup As with all other Interchange database source files, the placement of the tabs is significant. You could also simply delete that line altogether. Make sure to restart Interchange so your change takes effect. This problem has been fixed in Interchange 4.6.4, to be released shortly. As well as blocking password access on that group, there are now also tighter checks on login attempts. Group logins, user names with invalid characters, and blank passwords will all be rejected without consulting the access database. Many thanks to Jud Harris <[email protected]> for finding and reporting this problem on the interchange-users list: http://lists.akopia.com/pipermail/interchange-users/2001-March/005939.html Jon _______________________________________________ Interchange-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.akopia.com/mailman/listinfo/interchange-announce -------------------------------------------------------
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