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 Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documentum_content_server | Opentext | * | 23.2 (excluding) |