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CVE-2015-5970

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

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.

Affected products

• Novell Zenworks Configuration Management: 11.3.0, 11.3.1, 11.3.2, 11.4.0, 11.4.1

References

• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-167
• https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017240
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-167
• https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017240

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