CVE-2019-12309: dotCMS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dotCMS before 5.1.0 has a path traversal vulnerability exploitable by an administrator to create files. The vulnerability is caused by the insecure extraction of a ZIP archive.

Affected products

• dotCMS dotCMS: before 5.1.0 (fixed in 5.1.0)

Published 2019-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.