CVE-2016-9684

Publication date

2017-02-22 05:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The SonicWall Secure Remote Access server (version 8.1.0.2-14sv) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. This vulnerability occurs in the viewcert CGI (/cgi-bin/viewcert) component responsible for processing SSL certificate information. The CGI application doesnt properly escape the information its passed in the CERT variable before a call to system() is performed - allowing for remote command injection. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the nobody user account.