National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2001-1130
Original release date:08/02/2001
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Sdbsearch.cgi in SuSE Linux 6.0-7.2 could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by uploading a keylist.txt file that contains filenames with shell metacharacters, then causing the file to be searched using a .. in the HTTP referer (from the HTTP_REFERER variable) to point to the directory that contains the keylist.txt file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: sdbsearch-cgi-command-execution(7003)
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20010802 suse: sdbsearch.cgi vulnerability
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SUSE
Name: SuSE-SA:2001:027