CVE-2014-4509: Netiq Identity Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MKDQUOTESAFE function in the Fan-out driver scripts in Fan-Out Platform Services in Novell Identity Manager (aka IDM) 4.0.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging eDirectory POSIX attribute changes to insert shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• Netiq Identity Manager: version 4.0.2 only

Published 2014-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.