CVE-2017-3188

Summary

CVECVE-2017-3188
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-24 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:27:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dotcms Dotcms All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VU#168699 - dotCMS contains multiple vulnerabilities CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
doc.dotcms.com/security/SI-41 MISC doc.dotcms.com Vendor Advisory
dotCMS VU#168699 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: 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.

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