ESA-2014-046: EMC Documentum Content Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

ESA-2014-046: EMC Documentum Content Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

EMC Identifier: ESA-2014-046

CVE Identifier:  CVE-2014-2506, CVE-2014-2507, CVE-2014-2508

Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: See below for individual scores

Affected products:  
? All EMC Documentum Content Server versions of 7.1
? All EMC Documentum Content Server versions of 7.0
? All EMC Documentum Content Server versions of 6.7 SP2
? All EMC Documentum Content Server versions of 6.7 SP1
? All EMC Documentum Content Server versions prior to 6.7 SP1

Summary:  
EMC Documentum Content Server contains fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be potentially exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. 

Details: 
EMC Documentum Content Server may be susceptible to the following vulnerabilities:

? Privilege Escalation  (CVE-2014-2506):
Authenticated non-privileged users are allowed to create system objects with super user privileges due to improper authorization checks being performed on these objects. This could be potentially exploited by a malicious attacker to gain unauthorized access to data or to perform unauthorized actions on Content Server.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)


? Shell Injection (CVE-2014-2507):
Certain methods in Documentum Content Server perform improper validation checks on input arguments. This may be potentially exploited by an authenticated malicious user to conduct shell injection attacks against these methods and perform unauthorized actions on Content Server.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

? DQL Injection (CVE-2014-2508):
Certain DQL hints in Documentum Content Server may be potentially exploited by an authenticated malicious user to conduct DQL injection attacks to access the database content without proper authorization. This issue only affects Content Server running on Oracle database. 
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)


Resolution: 
The following versions contain the security fixes to address these vulnerabilities: 
? EMC Documentum Content Server version 7.1 P05 and later
? EMC Documentum Content Server version 7.0 - Hotfix is available for Windows & Linux in the below mentioned links. For Solaris and AIX contact EMC Support.  
? EMC Documentum Content Server version 6.7 SP2 P14 and later
EMC Documentum Content Server version 6.7 SP1 - Hotfix is available for Windows & Linux in the below mentioned linksFor Solaris and AIX contact EMC Support. 
EMC strongly recommends all customers to upgrade to one of the above versions at the earliest opportunity.

Link to remedies:
Registered EMC Online Support customers can download patches and software from support.emc.com at: https://support.emc.com/downloads/2732_Documentum-Server

Contact EMC Technical Support to request the hotfixes.  

Credits: EMC would like to thank Pedro Laguna, from Pentura for reporting the issue CVE-2014-2508.


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