What is CVE-2017-14754?

CVE-2017-14754 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opentext Document Sciences Xpression, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-10-03.

How severe is CVE-2017-14754?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Opentext Document Sciences Xpression

CVE-2017-14754

OpenText Document Sciences xPression (formerly EMC Document Sciences xPression) v4.5SP1 Patch 13 (older versions might be affected as well) is prone to Arbitrary File Read: /xAdmin/html/cm_datasource_group_xsd.jsp, parameter: xsd_datasource_schema_file filename. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited, an attacker must authenticate to the application first.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.013 (67.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Opentext Document_sciences_xpression
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14754?: CVE-2017-14754 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opentext Document Sciences Xpression, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-10-03.
How severe is CVE-2017-14754?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.