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High · 7.8 CVE-2023-31871 EUVD-2023-36161GHSA-r467-q4j9-32j6

OpenText Documentum Content Server before 23.2 has a flaw that allows for privilege escalation from a non-privileged Documentum user to roo…

Published May 18, 2023 · Updated Jan 22, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

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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.

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