CVE-2014-5006

high

Published 2014-10-21 · 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

8.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ZOHO ManageEngine Desktop Central (DC) before 9 build 90055 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter to mdm/mdmLogUploader.

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-34594 remote windows verified

Metasploit · 2014-09-09

ManageEngine Desktop Central StatusUpdate - Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-34518 webapps jsp

Pedro Ribeiro · 2014-09-01

ManageEngine Desktop Central - Arbitrary File Upload / Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
zohocorp	manageengine_desktop_central	`{"endIncluding":"9.0"}`

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.