What is CVE-2015-5970?

CVE-2015-5970 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Novell Zenworks_configuration_management, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-02-18.

How severe is CVE-2015-5970?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

RCE in Novell Zenworks_configuration_management

CVE-2015-5970

The ChangePassword RPC method in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) 11.3 and 11.4 allows remote attackers to conduct XPath injection attacks, and read arbitrary text files, via a malformed query involving a system entity refere…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.005 (67.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Novell Zenworks_configuration_management — versions 11.3.0, 11.3.1, 11.3.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

security@opentext.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security@opentext.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-5970?: CVE-2015-5970 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Novell Zenworks_configuration_management, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-02-18.
How severe is CVE-2015-5970?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.