CVE-2017-15276: Opentext Documentum Content Server

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 contains the following design gap, which allows an authenticated user to gain superuser privileges: Content Server allows uploading content using batches (TAR archives). When unpacking TAR archives, Content Server fails to verify the contents of an archive, which causes a path traversal vulnerability via symlinks. Because some files on the Content Server filesystem are security-sensitive, this leads to privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Opentext Documentum Content Server: up to and including 7.3

Published 2017-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.