VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3972

low
Published 2016-04-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
2.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
2.7

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the dotTailLogServlet in dotCMS before 3.5.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
39%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://dotcms.com/security/SI-34

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
dotcmsdotcms{"endIncluding":"3.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.