CVE-2017-15276

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-10-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

OpenText Documentum Content Server: through 7.3

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Oct/19
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101639
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43002/
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Oct/19
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101639
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43002/

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