CVE-2012-2215

medium

Published 2012-04-09 · 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 Preboot Service in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) 11.1 and 11.1a allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an opcode 0x21 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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/novell/zenworks_preboot_op21_bof rank 300

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Preboot Service 0x21 Buffer Overflow

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

auxiliary_scanner/misc/zenworks_preboot_fileaccess rank 300

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Preboot Service Remote File Access

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`11.1`
novell	zenworks_configuration_management	`11.1a`

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.