CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15276

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-10-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• opentext documentum content server (<= 7.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References