CVE-2016-1595

Service Desk vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

6.6%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

LiveTime/WebObjects/LiveTime.woa/wa/DownloadAction/downloadFile in Micro Focus Novell Service Desk before 7.2 allows remote authenticated users to conduct Hibernate Query Language (HQL) injection attacks and obtain sensitive information via the entityName parameter.

Affected vendor

Novell

Affected product

Service Desk

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information

Published

2016-04-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 6.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Novell Service Desk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-1595.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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