ESA-2014-067: EMC Documentum D2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
EMC Identifier: ESA-2014-067
CVE Identifier: CVE-2014-2515
Severity: CVSSv2 Base Score: 8.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Affected products:
EMC Documentum D2 3.1 and patch versions
EMC Documentum D2 3.1SP1 and patch versions
EMC Documentum D2 4.0 and patch versions
EMC Documentum D2 4.1 and patch versions
EMC Documentum D2 4.2 and patch versions
Summary:
EMC Documentum D2 contains a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that could be potentially exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.
Details:
D2GetAdminTicketMethod and D2RefreshCacheMethod methods serve a superuser ticket to all requesting parties. A remote authenticated unprivileged user could potentially use these methods to request a superuser ticket and then use that ticket to escalate their privileges.
Resolution:
EMC strongly recommends all customers upgrade to the fixed versions listed below at the earliest opportunity.
The following products contain the resolution to this issue:
EMC Documentum D2 3.1P24
EMC Documentum D2 3.1SP1P02 (hotfix)
EMC Documentum D2 4.0P11 (hotfix)
EMC Documentum D2 4.1P16
EMC Documentum D2 4.2P05
Link to remedies:
Customers can download the D2 3.1P24, D2 4.1P16, and D2 4.2P05 patch releases from:
https://emc.subscribenet.com
Customers can contact EMC support for the hotfix versions of D2 3.1SP1 P02 and D2 4.0 P11 .
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