VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-3189

CVSS score8.1 HIGH

EPSS probability6.46%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2018-07-24

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Primary references

cret@cert.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.org — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource