Expert found critical flaws in OpenText Enterprise Content Management System

The OpenText enterprise content management (ECM) system is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical RCE.

Armin Stock (Atos), researcher at cybersecurity firm Sec Consult, discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the OpenText enterprise content management (ECM) product.

OpenText Extended ECM is an enterprise CMS platform that manages the information lifecycle by integrating with leading enterprise applications, such as SAP, Microsoft 365, Salesforce and SAP SuccessFactors.

The list of vulnerabilities discovered by the experts includes:

Deletion of arbitrary files (CVE-2022-45924);
Privilege escalation due to logic error in cookie creation (CVE-2022-45922);
xmlExport multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-45925);
Evaluate webreports via notify.localizeEmailTemplate (CVE-2022-45926);
Local File Inclusion allows Oscript execution (CVE-2022-45928);
Pre-authenticated Remote Code Execution in cs.exe (CVE-2022-45923)
Pre-authenticated Remote Code Execution via Java frontend and QDS endpoint (CVE-2022-45927)

The advisories for the high-severity vulnerabilities includes Proof-of-concept (PoC) code.

The expert reported the issues to OpenText in October 2022 which addressed it this month with the release of version 22.4.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.