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CVE-2017-3188

The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, "Push Publishing" feature in Enterprise Pro is vulnerable to path traversal

Severity Score

6.5
*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, "Push Publishing" feature in Enterprise Pro is vulnerable to path traversal. When "Bundle" tar.gz archives uploaded to the Push Publishing feature are decompressed, the filenames of its contents are not properly checked, allowing for writing files to arbitrary directories on the file system. These archives may be uploaded directly via the administrator panel, or using the CSRF vulnerability (CVE-2017-3187). An unauthenticated remote attacker may perform actions with the dotCMS administrator panel with the same permissions of a victim user or execute arbitrary system commands with the permissions of the user running the dotCMS application.

En el panel de administrador de dotCMS, en versiones 3.7.1 y anteriores, la característica "Push Publishing" en Enterprise Pro es vulnerable a un salto de directorio. Cuando los archivos "Bundle" tar.gz se suben a la funcionalidad Push Publishing se descomprimen, los nombres de archivo de sus contenidos no se comprueban correctamente, lo que permite escribir archivos en directorios arbitrarios del sistema de archivos. Estos archivos podrían subirse directamente mediante el panel de administración o mediante la vulnerabilidad CSRF (CVE-2017-3187). Un atacante remoto no autenticado podría realizar acciones con el panel de administrador de dotCMS con los mismos permisos que un usuario víctima o ejecutar comandos arbitrarios del sistema con los permisos del usuario que ejecuta la aplicación dotCMS.

*Credits: Thanks to: [1]SafeDog Penetration and Defense Lab:darong tong [2]SafeDog Penetration and Defense Lab:yong cai [3]shaohong wu for reporting these vulnerabilities.
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2016-12-05 CVE Reserved
  • 2018-07-24 CVE Published
  • 2024-06-02 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-08-05 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CAPEC
References (3)
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Dotcms
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Dotcms
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<= 3.7.1
Search vendor "Dotcms" for product "Dotcms" and version " <= 3.7.1"
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Affected