Vulnerability Development: Re: Router worm exploiting poor SNMP security.

[Fyodor <fygrave () SCORPIONS NET>]

> > of a snmpd exploit that can execute remote commands, but I'm not
> > sure, are MIB's even supposed to contain executable stuff? If
> > there's this
> Of course you can execute some commands remotely on cisco routers if
> you have the write community of the router. This is mostly used to
> download configurations to tftp servers or remotely restarts a router
> without having to login.
> For example: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/477/21.html
> But I don't thing that one may use this to create a virus or trojan.
well, at least you can create trinoo-like distributed flooding network
with it (you can execute ping and similar commands over snmp too, verified).