Description
OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 does not properly validate the input of the PUT_FILE RPC-command, which allows any authenticated user to hijack an arbitrary file from the Content Server filesystem; because some files on the Content Server filesystem are security-sensitive, this leads to privilege escalation.
Published: 2017-10-13
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: 4.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6487 OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 does not properly validate the input of the PUT_FILE RPC-command, which allows any authenticated user to hijack an arbitrary file from the Content Server filesystem; because some files on the Content Server filesystem are security-sensitive, this leads to privilege escalation.
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Opentext Documentum Content Server
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:42:22.375Z

Reserved: 2017-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-15012

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-13T16:29:00.200

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-15012

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