Novell Zenworks com.novell.zenworks.inventory.rtr.actionclasses.wcreports Information Disclosure Vulnerability

April 22nd, 2015
ZDI-15-152 ZDI-CAN-2578

CVE ID

CVE-2015-0785

CVSS Score

5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Vendors

Novell

Affected Products

Zenworks

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows attackers to obtain sensitive information on vulnerable installations of Novell Zenworks. User interaction is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within com.novell.zenworks.inventory.rtr.actionclasses.wcreports. The issue lies in the failure to sanitize the path of the "dirname" variable. The attacker can leverage this to disclose the contents of folders on the system.

Additional Details

Novell has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7016431

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2015-01-15 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2015-04-22 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Anonymous

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