OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 contains the following design gap, which allows an…

Published 9 y ago 2017-10-13 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

9.5%

percentile 95%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

9.49% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-43002 OpenText Documentum Content Server - Privilege Escalation · webapps · 2017-10-17

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.5	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Classification

Weakness

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

References

securityfocus.com /bid/101639 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
exploit-db.com /exploits/43002/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
seclists.org /bugtraq/2017/Oct/19 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-15276
NVD: CVE-2017-15276

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