Directory traversal vulnerability in UploadServlet in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) 10 and 11 before 11.3.2 allows remote…

published 2015-06-07 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-0792

cvss: 10.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 74.4%; EPSS 74.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits: 3; Metasploit, Exploit-DB

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.

Patch / fix

links 1

github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework#5096 pull request

Timeline

2015-04-07 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/zenworks_configuration_management_upload)
2015-06-07 Published

Exploit prediction

74.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

Metasploit exploit/multi/http/zenworks_configuration_management_upload Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Arbitrary File Upload metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2015-04-07
EDB-36964 Novell ZENworks Configuration Management - Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit) remote, 2015-05-08
EDB-36678 Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 11.3.1 - Remote Code Execution webapps, 2015-04-08

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	10.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-0779
NVD CVE-2015-0779

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Summary