Path Traversal in Doccms Administration Panel
CVE-2017-3188
The 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.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
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:N/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (85.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Doccms Administration Panel — versions 3.7.1
- Dotcms
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/168699 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96616 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- doc.dotcms.com/security/SI-41 (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-3188?
- CVE-2017-3188 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Doccms Administration Panel, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-07-24.
- How severe is CVE-2017-3188?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.