OpenText Documentum Content Server before 23.2 has a flaw that allows for privilege escalation from a non-privileged Documentum user to root. The software comes prepackaged with a root owned SUID binary dmsecurewriter. The binary has security controls in place preventing creation of a file in a non-owned directory, or as the root user. However, these controls can be carefully bypassed to allow for an arbitrary file write as root.

OpenText Documentum Content Server (formerly EMC Documentum Content Server) through 7.3 contains the following design gap, which allows an authenticated user to gain superuser privileges: Content Server allows uploading content using batches (TAR archives). When unpacking TAR archives, Content Server fails to verify the contents of an archive, which causes a path traversal vulnerability via symlinks. Because some files on the Content Server filesystem are security-sensitive, this leads to privilege escalation.

EMC Documentum Content Server before 6.7 SP1 P28, 6.7 SP2 before P14, 7.0 before P15, and 7.1 before P05 allows remote authenticated users to obtain super-user privileges for system-object creation, and bypass intended restrictions on data access and server actions, via unspecified vectors.

EMC Documentum Content Server before 6.7 SP1 P28, 6.7 SP2 before P14, 7.0 before P15, and 7.1 before P05 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in arguments to unspecified methods.

EMC Documentum Content Server before 6.7 SP1 P28, 6.7 SP2 before P14, 7.0 before P15, and 7.1 before P05 allows remote authenticated users to conduct Documentum Query Language (DQL) injection attacks and bypass intended restrictions on database actions via vectors involving DQL hints.

EMC Documentum Content Server before 6.7 SP1 P26, 6.7 SP2 before P13, 7.0 before P13, and 7.1 before P02 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and read metadata from certain folders via unspecified vectors.

Unspecified vulnerability in EMC Documentum Content Server 6.0, 6.5 before SP2 P02, 6.5 SP3 before SP3 P02, and 6.6 before P02 allows local users to obtain "highest super user privileges" by leveraging system administrator privileges.