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                                           CERT-Renater

                               Note d'Information No. 2015/VULN168
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DATE                : 04/09/2015

HARDWARE PLATFORM(S): /

OPERATING SYSTEM(S): Systems running EMC Documentum Content Server.

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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536389
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ESA-2015-144: EMC Documentum Content Server Privilege Escalation
Vulnerability

EMC Identifier: ESA-2015-144

CVE Identifier: CVE-2015-4544

Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P)


Affected products:

EMC Documentum Content Server prior to 7.0

EMC Documentum Content Server 7.0

EMC Documentum Content Server 7.1

EMC Documentum Content Server 7.2


Summary:

EMC Documentum Content Server includes a Privilege Escalation
Vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by malicious, regular
users to perform certain actions as the superuser.


Details:

Unprivileged Content Server users may potentially escalate their
privileges to become a superuser by creating and performing malicious
operations on dm_job objects. This is due to improper authorization
checks being performed on such objects and some of their attributes.
The previous fix for CVE-2014-4626 was incomplete.


Resolution:

The following EMC Documentum Content Server release contains
resolutions to these issues:

EMC Documentum Content Server 7.1P20 or later

EMC Documentum Content Server 7.2P04 or later

Customers on EMC Documentum Content Server prior to 7.0with extended
support agreement are requested to raise hotfix requests through EMC
Customer Support.

EMC recommends all customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

Document Content Server is continuing to develop a fix for the below
version:

EMC Documentum Content Server 7.0.

This ESA will be updated when fixes are available for additional
versions.


Link to remedies:

Registered EMC Online support customers can download the patches from
https://emc.subscribenet.com/.

Read and use the information in this EMC Security Advisory to assist in
avoiding any situation that might arise from the problems described
herein. If you have any questions regarding this product alert, contact
EMC Software Technical Support at 1-877-534-2867.

For an explanation of Severity Ratings, refer to EMC Knowledgebase
solution emc218831. EMC recommends all customers take into account both
the base score and any relevant temporal and environmental scores which
may impact the potential severity associated with particular security
vulnerability.

EMC recommends that all users determine the applicability of this
information to their individual situations and take appropriate action.
The information set forth herein is provided "as is" without warranty
of any kind. EMC disclaims all warranties, either express or implied,
including the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, title and non-infringement. In no event, shall EMC or its
suppliers, be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct,
indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or
special damages, even if EMC or its suppliers have been
advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow
the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or
incidental damages, so the foregoing limitation may not apply.

EMC Product Security Response Center

security_alert@emc.com

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