🛡️ CVE-2023-31871
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-732 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenText Documentum Content Server before 23.2 has a flaw that allows for privilege escalation from a non-privileged Documentum user to root. The software comes prepackaged with a root owned SUID binary dm_secure_writer. The binary has security controls in place preventing creation of a file in a non-owned directory, or as the root user. However, these controls can be carefully bypassed to allow for an arbitrary file write as root.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-732
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-01-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
documentum-content-server 23.2

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