QID 150649

Date Published: 2023-02-17

QID 150649: dotCMS Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability (CVE-2022-37033)

dotCMS is an open source content management system written in Java for managing content and content driven sites and applications.

The dotCMS TempFileAPI allows a user to create temporary files based on a specified URL. While dotCMS tries to prevent access to URLs that contain local IP addresses or private subnets, the TempFileAPI will follow any 302 redirects returned by the remote URL. An attacker can create a URL that returns a 302 redirect to a local resource, such as https://elasticsearch:9200, which dotCMS will attempt to retrieve without re-validating the redirect URL. This can result in the TempFileAPI returning data from local/private IPs that should not be accessible remotely.

Affected versions:
dotCMS versions from 5.2.0 to 22.06

QID Detection Logic (Unauthenticated):
This QID performs a HTTP GET request to the "/api/v1/appconfiguration" endpoint and examines the response body to determine if the host is running a vulnerable version of the dotCMS Server.

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could enable a remote attacker to send malicious HTTP requests, causing the web server to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.8 severity.

Solution

Customers are recommended to upgrade to the latest version of dotCMS to remediate this vulnerability. For further details regarding this issue, please refer to SI-64.

Vendor References

SI-64 - www.dotcms.com/security/SI-64

CVEs related to QID 150649

CVE-2022-37033 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
SI-64			www.dotcms.com/security/SI-64

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