Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-15014 - Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Opentext Documentum Content Server

047910
CVSS 4.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
opentext
CWE-269
exploit available

Summary

OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 contains the following design gap, which allows authenticated users to download arbitrary content files regardless of the attacker's repository permissions: When an authenticated user uploads content to the repository, he performs the following steps: (1) calls the START_PUSH RPC-command; (2) uploads the file to the content server; (3) calls the END_PUSH_V2 RPC-command (here, Content Server returns a DATA_TICKET integer, intended to identify the location of the uploaded file on the Content Server filesystem); (4) creates a dmr_content object in the repository, which has a value of data_ticket equal to the value of DATA_TICKET returned at the end of END_PUSH_V2 call. As the result of this design, any authenticated user may create his own dmr_content object, pointing to already existing content in the Content Server filesystem.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Opentext
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Restful Privilege Elevation
    Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.

Exploit-Db

descriptionOpenText Documentum Content Server - Arbitrary File Download. CVE-2017-15014. Webapps exploit for Multiple platform
fileexploits/multiple/webapps/43005.py
idEDB-ID:43005
last seen2017-10-17
modified2017-10-17
platformmultiple
port
published2017-10-17
reporterExploit-DB
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/43005/
titleOpenText Documentum Content Server - Arbitrary File Download
typewebapps

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/144614/CVE-2017-15014.py.txt
idPACKETSTORM:144614
last seen2017-10-15
published2017-10-14
reporterAndrey B. Panfilov
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/144614/Opentext-Documentum-Content-Server-File-Download.html
titleOpentext Documentum Content Server File Download