Code Injection in caldera - CVE-2014-2936
Published: May 8, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41715
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2936
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: The MITRE Corporation and MIT KIT
Affected software:
caldera
caldera
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The directory manager in Caldera 9.20 allows remote attackers to conduct variable-injection attacks in the global scope via (1) the maindir_hotfolder parameter to dirmng/index.php, or an unspecified parameter to (2) PPD/index.php, (3) dirmng/docmd.php, or (4) dirmng/param.php.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-2936
Install update from vendor's website.