CVE-2015-0779

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 Novell ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) 10 and 11 before 11.3.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted directory name in the uid 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 and CVE-2010-5324.

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-36964 remote java verified

Metasploit · 2015-05-08

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management - Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-36678 webapps jsp verified

Pedro Ribeiro · 2015-04-08

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 11.3.1 - Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/http/zenworks_configuration_management_upload rank 600

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Arbitrary File Upload

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

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`11`
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`11.2`
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`11.2.1`
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`11.2.2`
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`11.2.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

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