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CVE-2003-1538

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

susehelp in SuSE Linux 8.1, Enterprise Server 8, Office Server, and Openexchange Server 4 does not properly filter shell metacharacters, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via CGI queries.

Affected products

• SUSE Office Server: all versions
• Suse Linux: 8, 8.1
• Suse Linux Openexchange Server: 4.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/7906
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_005_susehelp.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005954
• http://secunia.com/advisories/7906
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_005_susehelp.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005954

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