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)

EPSS: 0.013 (67.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Dotcms
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

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.