CVE-2024-3164: dotCMS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In dotCMS dashboard, the Tools and Log Files tabs under System → Maintenance Portlet, which is and always has been an Admin portlet, is accessible to anyone with that portlet and not just to CMS Admins. Users that get site admin but not a system admin, should not have access to the System Maintenance → Tools portlet. This would share database username and password under Log Files and download DB Dump and other dotCMS Content under Tools. Nothing in the System → Maintenance should be displayed for users with site admin role. Only system admins must have access to System Maintenance. OWASP Top 10 - A01) Broken Access Control OWASP Top 10 - A04) Insecure Design

Affected products

• dotCMS dotCMS: from 22.02, before 22.03.15 (fixed in 22.03.15); from 23.01, before 23.01.15 (fixed in 23.01.15); from 23.02, up to and including 23.09.7; version 23.10.24 only

Published 2024-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.