Novell ZENworks Handheld Management Common.dll messageID Request Field Parsing Traversal Arbitrary File Creation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56668

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Synopsis

The remote host is running a service affected by a directory traversal vulnerability.

Description

The version of the 'Common.dll' library included with the ZENworks Handheld Management install on the remote Windows host is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability because it fails to sanitize user input to the 'messageID' field in requests of directory traversal sequences.

An unauthenticated, remote attacker with knowledge of the name / ID of the server can exploit this vulnerability to create arbitrary files on the remote host within the context of the ZENworks Handheld Management Server process.

Solution

Apply Novell hotfix TID 7009486.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56668

File Name: novell_zenworks_handheld_management_zfhsrv_directory_traversal.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 10/28/2011

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:novell:zenworks_handheld_management

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, SMB/ZENworks/ZfHIPCND/Installed, SMB/ZENworks/ZfHIPCND/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4027

BID: 50369

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