CVE-2022-37034: dotCMS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In dotCMS 5.x-22.06, it is possible to call the TempResource multiple times, each time requesting the dotCMS server to download a large file. If done repeatedly, this will result in Tomcat request-thread exhaustion and ultimately a denial of any other requests.

Affected products

• dotCMS dotCMS: before 21.06.12 (fixed in 21.06.12); from 5.2.0, before 22.10 (fixed in 22.10); from 22.03, before 22.03.4 (fixed in 22.03.4)

Published 2023-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.