CVE-2003-1538: Suse Office Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

susehelp in SuSE Linux 8.1, Enterprise Server 8, Office Server, and Openexchange Server 4 does not properly filter shell metacharacters, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via CGI queries.

Affected products

• Suse Office Server: any version
• Suse Suse Linux: version 8 only; version 8.1 only
• Suse Suse Linux Openexchange Server: version 4.0 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.