PT-2003-2483 · Suse · Office Server+3

Published 2003-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2003-1538

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SuSE Linux versions 8.1 Enterprise Server version 8 Office Server (affected versions not specified) Openexchange Server version 4

Description The issue is related to the susehelp component, which does not properly filter shell metacharacters. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via CGI queries.

Recommendations For SuSE Linux version 8.1, update the susehelp component to properly filter shell metacharacters. For Enterprise Server version 8, update the susehelp component to properly filter shell metacharacters. For Office Server, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue. For Openexchange Server version 4, update the susehelp component to properly filter shell metacharacters.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-1538

Affected Products

Enterprise Server

Office Server

Open-Xchange Server

Suse Linux

References · 4

• http://secunia.com/advisories/7906 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1005954 · Patch
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_005_susehelp.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1538 · Security Note