CVE-2010-5324

critical

Published 2015-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in UploadServlet in the Remote Management component in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) 10 before 10.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a zenworks-fileupload request with a crafted directory name in the type parameter, in conjunction with a WAR filename in the filename parameter and WAR content in the POST data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-5323.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-16784 remote multiple verified

Metasploit · 2010-11-22

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 10.2.0 - Remote Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/http/zenworks_uploadservlet rank 600

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Remote Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`10.0`
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`10.1`
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`10.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.