CVE-2017-3188
The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, "Push Publishing" feature in Enterprise Pro is vulnerable to path traversal.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.75%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, "Push Publishing" feature in Enterprise Pro is vulnerable to path traversal. When "Bundle" tar.gz archives uploaded to the Push Publishing feature are decompressed, the filenames of its contents are not properly checked, allowing for writing files to arbitrary directories on the file system. These archives may be uploaded directly via the administrator panel, or using the CSRF vulnerability (CVE-2017-3187). An unauthenticated remote attacker may perform actions with the dotCMS administrator panel with the same permissions of a victim user or execute arbitrary system commands with the permissions of the user running the dotCMS application.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.75% probability · 86th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- dotcms/dotcms
- Source
- cret@cert.org
EPSS 2.8% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96616Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/168699Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://doc.dotcms.com/security/SI-41Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96616Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/168699Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.