CVE-2012-0419

medium

Published 2012-09-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the agent HTTP interfaces in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before Support Pack 3 and 2012 before Support Pack 1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/groupwise_agents_http_traversal rank 300

Novell Groupwise Agents HTTP Directory Traversal

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
novell	groupwise	`8.0`
novell	groupwise	`8.00`
novell	groupwise	`8.01`
novell	groupwise	`8.02`
novell	groupwise	`2012`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.