MARS is vulnerable to attacks, officials at Cisco Systems said. CS-MARS is the "Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System" appliance. The machine's built-in JBoss application server could let attackers send administration commands, and there are more flaws in MARS' command-line interface. The flaws apply to versions 4.2.1 and older. Patches are available.

For more on security:
- read this CRN article [1]

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