CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-0914

Improper Access Control

Published: Jun 23, 2016 | Modified: Jan 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
6.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

EMC Documentum WebTop 6.8 before Patch 13 and 6.8.1 before Patch 02, Documentum Administrator 7.x before 7.2 Patch 13, Documentum Capital Projects 1.9 before Patch 23 and 1.10 before Patch 10, and Documentum TaskSpace 6.7 SP3 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and execute arbitrary IAPI/IDQL commands via the IAPI/IDQL interface.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Documentum_administrator Emc 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Documentum_administrator Emc 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Documentum_administrator Emc 7.2 (including) 7.2 (including)
Documentum_capital_projects Emc 1.9 (including) 1.9 (including)
Documentum_capital_projects Emc 1.10 (including) 1.10 (including)
Documentum_taskspace Emc 6.7-sp3 (including) 6.7-sp3 (including)
Documentum_webtop Emc 6.8 (including) 6.8 (including)
Documentum_webtop Emc 6.8.1 (including) 6.8.1 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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