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Post-Nuke Trojan Horse

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains if post-nuke is trojaned

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host seems to be running a copy of a trojaned version of
the 'PostNuke' content management system.

Post-Nuke is a content management system in PHP whose main website has
been compromised between the 24th and 26th of October 2004. A possible hacker
modified some of the source code of the tool to execute arbitrary commands
remotely on the remote host, by passing arguments to the 'oops' parameter
of the file pnAPI.php.

Solution : Upgrade to the latest version of postnuke
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 11529

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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