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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29026.html


DoD offering admin privileges on .mil Web sites
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 24/01/2003 at 21:22 GMT

Care to register a .mil Web site of your own for free? The DoD has gone out of its way 
to make it a snap. An unbelievably badly-protected admin interface welcomes you to 
register whatever domain you please (http://Rotten.mil anyone?), or edit anything 
they've already got. The interface is so ludicrously unprotected that it's been cached 
by Google and fails to mention that you must be authorized to muck about with it. 
Incredibly, default passwords are cheerfully provided on the page.

Following an anonymous tip from an observant Reg reader, we've encountered the page in 
question in the Google cache, and after a bit of our own poking about have also 
discovered an equally unprotected (and Google-cached) admin interface encouraging us 
to add a new user, like ourselves, say, which requires no authentication.

All you have to do is find that page and you can set yourself up with a user account, 
manage your new .mil Web site, fiddle about with other people's .mil Web sites, and 
generally make an incredible nuisance of yourself. We are, of course, straining 
against every natural, journalistic impulse in our beings by neglecting to mention any 
useful search strings with which to find it.

Another unprotected and cached page, this one discovered by our tipster, lists traffic 
to a major DoD Web site by URL/IP address. This worries us because it may list .mil 
sites and networked DoD machines that are not public, not hotlinked anywhere, and 
which might contain (or be networked with other machines that contain) sensitive data. 
Merely knowing that all those URLs and IP addys are valid and owned by DoD would give 
a significant advantage to attackers by narrowing their target area dramatically.

We have e-mailed the person who manages these sites - twice in fact - but so far have 
not been graced with a reply. We were hoping that they might be inclined to fix this 
mess quickly so that we could safely include the details in our report. Unfortunately 
we have to withhold them until we're confident that these security snafus are under 
control.

Ironically, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently ordered DoD to purge 
military Web sites of information that might benefit evildoers. That's all well and 
good, but it might behoove the DoD to stop offering them admin privileges first. ®
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