OpenText Documentum Content Server before 23.2 has a flaw that allows for privilege escalation from a non-privileged Documentum user to root. The software comes prepackaged with a root owned SUID binary dm_secure_writer. The binary has security controls in place preventing creation of a file in a non-owned directory, or as the root user. However, these controls can be carefully bypassed to allow for an arbitrary file write as root.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-05-18T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-02T15:03:28.855Z

Reserved: 2023-04-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-31871

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-05-18T17:15:08.957

Modified: 2023-05-26T18:20:56.740

Link: CVE-2023-31871

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