CVE-2017-15276

OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 contains the following design gap, which allows an authenticated user to gain superuser privileges: Content Server allows uploading content using batches (TAR archives). When unpacking TAR archives, Content Server fails to verify the contents of an archive, which causes a path traversal vulnerability via symlinks. Because some files on the Content Server filesystem are security-sensitive, this leads to privilege escalation.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-10-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Documentum Content Server (Opentext)

References

• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Oct/19
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101639
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43002/