Privilege Escalation via Path Traversal in OpenText Documentum Content Server

CVE-2017-15276 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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