Vulnerability · Published Feb 5, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-6754

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 94.8% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)94.8%top 0.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

dotCMS before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to directory traversal, leading to incorrect access control. It allows an attacker to read or execute files under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/assets (which should be a protected directory). Additionally, attackers can upload temporary files (e.g., .jsp files) into /webapps/ROOT/assets/tmp_upload, which can lead to remote command execution (with the permissions of the user running the dotCMS application).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://dotcms.com/security/SI-54 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/17796 x_refsource_CONFIRM