PT-2018-7243 · Dotcms · Dotcms

Darong Tong + 2 · Published 2018-07-24 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-3187

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: dotCMS versions 3.7.1 and earlier

Description: The dotCMS administration panel contains a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. An attacker can perform actions with the same permissions as a victim user, provided the victim has an active session and is induced to trigger the malicious request. 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.

Recommendations: For dotCMS versions 3.7.1 and earlier, update to a version later than 3.7.1 to resolve the issue.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-3187

Affected Products

Dotcms

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-3187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3187 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3187 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96616 · Note
• https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/168699 · Note