Re: pen testing management and control system

From: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (jfernandezat_private)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 23:57:48 PDT

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    Ronen Gottlib wrote:
    > 
    > Does anyone has any idea about methods to bypass management apps (maybe
    > I need to try and DoS it)?
    > 
    
    Notice that common management agents (Openview Operatins, Tivoli, 
    Aprisma Spectrum...) do no provide (out of the box) any kind of IPS 
    functionality they "only" provide a framework to remotely manage 
    systems. The network/systems architect might, however, have created an 
    IPS based on that management system, since the management systems we are 
    talking about provide a centralised multi-agent architecture is quite 
    feasible to have the central management station tell the remote agents 
    to block an IP address if the remote agents send reports on suspicous 
    activities in the logs of the systems they are in.
    
    If this is the case there are two ways to get around it. Either DoS the 
    system agent (not nice) or find attack vectors that are not monitored 
    (i.e you are not black-holed after using them), test if there is any 
    misconfiguration in the applications you can access and see if 
    exploiting them blackholes you.
    
    Regards
    
    Javi
    
    
    
    
    
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