What is CVE-2019-12309?

CVE-2019-12309 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-05-23.

How severe is CVE-2019-12309?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Dotcms

CVE-2019-12309

dotCMS before 5.1.0 has a path traversal vulnerability exploitable by an administrator to create files. The vulnerability is caused by the insecure extraction of a ZIP archive.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2019-05-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (68.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Dotcms

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

dotcms.com/security/SI-48 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/dotCMS/core/compare/605e5db...364c910 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12309?: CVE-2019-12309 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-05-23.
How severe is CVE-2019-12309?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.