CVE-2012-6534

medium

Published 2013-03-29 · 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

5.3

Description

Novell Sentinel Log Manager before 1.2.0.3 allows remote attackers to create data retention policies via a crafted text/x-gwt-rpc request to novelllogmanager/datastorageservice.rpc, and allows remote authenticated Report Administrators to create data retention policies via a search-results "Save Query As" "Save As Retention Policy" action.

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.

Exploit-DB

EDB-21744 webapps windows

Piotr Chmylkowski · 2012-10-04

Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.2.0.2 - Retention Policy

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`{"endIncluding":"1.2.0.2"}`
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`1.0.0.4`
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`1.0.0.5`
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`1.1.0.0`
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`1.1.0.1`
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`1.1.0.2`
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`1.2`
novell	sentinel_log_manager	`1.2.0.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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