Problem Note 35724: Clear text passwords are visible in SAS® Digital Marketing files
In SAS Digital Marketing some files contain passwords in clear text; this represents a security risk.
Anybody with access to the SAS Digital Marketing
...SDMROOT/config/*.xml files would be able to use
these passwords to log on to SAS Digital Marketing Studio, even though these passwords are encoded.
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Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS Digital Marketing | Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Windows Vista | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| HP-UX IPF | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Linux | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
In SAS Digital Marketing some files contain passwords in clear text. This represents a security risk because people would be able to use these passwords to log on to SAS Digital Marketing Studio.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2009-06-03 09:40:59 |
| Date Created: | 2009-04-29 09:25:07 |
