CVE-2023-31871
- Reference to the description:
- 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.
- Last updated date:
- 05/26/2023
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 05/26/2023
- Reference url to background
https://gist.github.com/picar0jsu/a8e623639da34f36202ce5e436668de7