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.
Published: 2017-10-13
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: 2.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6736 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.
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Opentext Documentum Content Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:50:16.486Z

Reserved: 2017-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-15276

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-13T16:29:00.327

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

Link: CVE-2017-15276

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