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CVE-2016-1593
published 2016-04-22

CVE-2016-1593: Directory traversal vulnerability in the import users feature in Micro Focus Novell Service Desk before 7.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to…

PriorityP267high7.2CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH
EXPLOIT
EPSS
64.14%
99.1th percentile
Directory traversal vulnerability in the import users feature in Micro Focus Novell Service Desk before 7.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to upload and execute arbitrary JSP files via a .. (dot dot) in a filename within a multipart/form-data POST request to a LiveTime.woa URL.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
novellservice_desk<= 7.1

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url/LiveTime/WebObjects/LiveTime.woa/wo/7.0.53.19.0.2.7.0.3.0.0.1
url/LiveTime/WebObjects/LiveTime.woa/wa/DownloadAction/downloadLogFiles
url/LiveTime/WebObjects/LiveTime.woa/wa/DownloadAction/downloadFile?attachmentId=1&entityName=ItemTypeAttach
path/LiveTime/Uploads/
path/srv/tomcat6/webapps/LiveTime/
url/LiveTime/WebObjects/LiveTime.woa
other0.53.19.0.2.7.0.3.0.0.1.1.1.4.0.0.23
  • Detect multipart/form-data POST requests to LiveTime.woa URLs containing directory traversal sequences (../) in the filename parameter of the Content-Disposition header, particularly targeting .jsp file uploads.
  • Alert on POST requests to any URL matching the pattern /LiveTime/WebObjects/LiveTime.woa/wo/* with Content-Type multipart/form-data where the filename field contains '../' sequences.
  • Monitor for GET requests to /LiveTime/WebObjects/LiveTime.woa/wa/DownloadAction/downloadLogFiles from non-administrative user sessions, indicating CVE-2016-1594 information disclosure exploitation.
  • Detect newly created .jsp files under the Tomcat webapps/LiveTime/ directory, especially files with random alpha names (6–14 characters) consistent with Metasploit module payload naming.
  • Flag HTTP requests using the specific User-Agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)' to LiveTime.woa endpoints, as this is the hardcoded UA in the Metasploit exploit module.
  • Use the Google dork inurl:"LiveTime/WebObjects" to identify exposed Novell Service Desk instances for asset discovery and attack surface reduction.
  • Monitor for execution of 'chmod 777' followed by a binary file drop in /tmp or similar world-writable directories on Linux hosts running Tomcat, consistent with the JSP payload execution chain.
  • ·Exploitation requires valid administrator credentials; the vulnerability is not unauthenticated. Detection should correlate file upload activity with authenticated admin sessions.
  • ·The traversal path to reach the Tomcat webapps directory differs between Linux VA (/srv/tomcat6/webapps/) and Windows installations; detections should account for both path variants.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.2HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.06.5MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
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