CVE-2015-5970 (GCVE-0-2015-5970)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-02-18 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:06
VLAI
Summary
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 reference.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
microfocus CNA
CNA scorecard – unranked: 0 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
Date Public
2016-02-09 00:00
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