CWE Code: 22
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 6.5
CWE Name:  Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: SINGLE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): PARTIAL/PARTIAL/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2017-10-13
Last Modified Date: 2017-11-03