What is CVE-2017-3189?

CVE-2017-3189 is a high-severity vulnerability in Doccms Administration Panel, classified under Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-07-24.

How severe is CVE-2017-3189?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Arbitrary file upload in Doccms Administration Panel

CVE-2017-3189

The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, "Push Publishing" feature in Enterprise Pro is vulnerable to arbitrary file upload. When "Bundle" tar.gz archives uploaded to the Push Publishing feature are decompressed, there are no checks on the types of files which the bundle contains. This vulnerability combined with the path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2017-3188) can lead to remote command execution with the permissions of the user running the dotCMS application. 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: Unrestricted File Upload

EPSS: 0.065 (93.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Doccms Administration Panel — versions 3.7.1
Dotcms

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-434 — Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

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-2017-3189?: CVE-2017-3189 is a high-severity vulnerability in Doccms Administration Panel, classified under Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-07-24.
How severe is CVE-2017-3189?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.