CVE-2023-31871: Opentext Documentum Content Server

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opentext Documentum Content Server: before 23.2 (fixed in 23.2)

Published 2023-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.