Vulnerabilites related to Zenoss, Inc. - Zenoss Core
CVE-2012-10048 (GCVE-0-2012-10048)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-08 18:14
Modified
2025-08-08 18:42
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
Zenoss Core 3.x contains a command injection vulnerability in the showDaemonXMLConfig endpoint. The daemon parameter is passed directly to a Popen() call in ZenossInfo.py without proper sanitation, allowing authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands on the server as the zenoss user.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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Zenoss, Inc. | Zenoss Core |
Version: 3.x |
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