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A vulnerability was found in Micro Focus Novell Service Desk up to 7.1. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file LiveTime.woa of the component multipart/form-data Handler. The manipulation as part of a POST Request leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Directory traversal vulnerability in the import users feature in Micro Focus Novell Service Desk before 7.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to upload and execute arbitrary JSP files via a .. (dot dot) in a filename within a multipart/form-data POST request to a LiveTime.woa URL.

The weakness was disclosed 04/22/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-1593 since 01/11/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional.

Upgrading to version 7.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (39708). The entry VDB-82775 is pretty similar.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Micro Focus

Name

• Novell Service Desk

Version

• 7.0
• 7.1

License

• commercial

Support

• end of life (old version)

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

VulDB CVSS-B Score: 🔍
VulDB CVSS-BT Score: 🔍
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0

VulDB Base Score: 7.2
VulDB Temp Score: 6.9
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 7.2
NVD Vector: 🔍

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Download: 🔍

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Current Price Estimation: 🔍

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OpenVAS ID: 801951
OpenVAS Name: Novell Service Desk Multiple Vulnerabilities
OpenVAS File: 🔍
OpenVAS Family: 🔍

MetaSploit ID: novell_servicedesk_rce.rb
MetaSploit Name: Novell ServiceDesk Authenticated File Upload
MetaSploit File: 🔍

Exploit-DB: 🔍

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍
Upgrade: Novell Service Desk 7.2

Timelineinfo

01/11/2016 🔍
04/22/2016 +101 days 🔍
04/22/2016 +0 days 🔍
04/24/2016 +2 days 🔍
07/26/2022 +2284 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microfocus.com

Advisory: 136717⛔
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2016-1593 (🔍)
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
See also: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 04/24/2016 09:11
Updated: 07/26/2022 14:34
Changes: 04/24/2016 09:11 (50), 10/21/2018 09:55 (22), 07/26/2022 14:34 (3)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 18:543:103

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