CVE-2017-15276

8.8 highEPSS 9.5%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2017-10-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

opentext:documentum_content_server

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

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