CSRF in Doccms Administration Panel

CVE-2017-3187

The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery. The dotCMS administrator panel contains a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. An attacker can perform actions with the same permissions as a victim user, provided the victim has an active session and is induced to trigger the malicious request. 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.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.011 (63.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cret@cert.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cret@cert.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-3187?
CVE-2017-3187 is a high-severity vulnerability in Doccms Administration Panel, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-07-24.
How severe is CVE-2017-3187?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.