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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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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-15276

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Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-15276

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