CVE-2016-1000031: Novell NetIQ Sentinel Commons DiskFileItem Deserialization Vulnerability

  • 7018113
  • 04-Oct-2016
  • 14-Nov-2016

Environment

NetIQ Sentinel 7.3.x and 7.4.x

Situation

Deserialization vulnerability in the usage of "Apache Commons FileUpload" library's DiskFileItem class by Sentinel allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to create files and delete files owned by the "novell" user and group on the Sentinel Server.

Resolution

7.3.x customers should upgrade to Sentinel Server 7.3.4.0 to resolve this vulnerability.
7.4.x customers should upgrade to Sentinel Server 7.4.3.0 to resolve this vulnerability.   

Bug Number

987356

Additional Information

Credit

Thanks to Jacob Baines of Tenable Network Security working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this vulnerability

References

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000031

http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-570/